FreeBSD 9.0 hangs on heavy I/O

[Kees Jan Koster]

Dear Freddie,

> Granted, I haven't played with gsched yet (most of our high-I/O
> systems are ZFS), so there may be a way to use it across-GEOMs.

From my previous experiments ZFS suffers the same fate when there is heavy write activity. Reads just don't get served in time.

How do you deal with that?
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