Matthew Dillon wrote: > Well, 11% over a period of a single second, once every 30 seconds > makes sense if there are a lot of vnodes cached. I think you are > seeing the same issue, just that on -stable there is much lower > overhead. > > Basically we have two routines that are causing problems: > > ffs_sync() > qsync() (quota sync) [explanation ripped]
Perhaps my problem is because of something else ; I recompiled a kernel with a different syncdelay in vfs_subr.c, 42s (sorry ;) instead of 30s. I also bumped SYNCER_MAXDELAY accordingly. But, the problem was still happening every 30s. Maxime -- Don't be fooled by cheap finnish imitations ; BSD is the One True Code To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

