> But what I can't understand - why such non-critical(as it seems to me) > disk activity, cause 100% busyness for disk?
Others have pointed out the effect of seeking. It would be very useful if there was a way to nice I/O up or down the way we can nice CPU usage up or down. Then non-critical disk activity could be niced down and not impact critical I/O so much. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
