Hi all -- I'm getting some weird disk slowdowns on FreeBSD 4.2. Subversion checkouts from a local repository are normally near-instantaneous on normal Linux machines. But on *all three* of my FreeBSD 4.2 boxes, each checked-out takes about 1 second (or more). This didn't used to be the case.
I hypothesize that there is something seriously wrong with APR's disk I/O on this specific version of FreeBSD. My evidence: it happens on three different machines, and it *didn't* used to happen when one of the boxes was running FreeBSD 4.0 or 4.1. There was a direct correlation between installing 4.2 and experiencing the disk I/O slowdown. I think we need to investigate APR and see where the "portability" has gone astray... what system interfaces changed in FreeBSD 4.2 that so dislike APR's file routines? Anyone have ideas? -Ben
