On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:41:53 -0500 Garrett Moore <[email protected]> wrote about Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues:
GM> The drives being discussed in my related thread (regarding poor GM> performance) are all WD Green drives. I have used wdidle3 to set all GM> of my drive timeouts to 5 minutes. I'll see what sort of difference GM> this makes for performance. GM> Even if it makes no difference to performance, thank you for pointing GM> it out GM> -- my drives have less than 2,000 hours on them and were all over GM> 90,000 load cycles due to this moronic factory setting. Since changing GM> the timeout, they haven't parked (which is what I would expect). Thanks for bringing up this topic here. I have drives showing up close to 800000 load cycle counts here. Guess it's time for that fix... :-| cu Gerrit _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
