On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 05:18:22PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: > > I experienced what I think is the same problem. ZFS's bulk disk flushes > caused vlc to occasionally stutter when viewing a DVD rip from disk while > ripping a DVD at the same time. > > My workaround is to put "vfs.zfs.txg.timeout=3" in /boot/loader.conf. > I think I read about this on zfs-disc...@. I assume on faster systems > one can use a higher value.
This was a very good idea. I'm trying this and the system freezes much less if at all. Are there any drawbacks I should be aware of? I can imagine that forcing more disk writes somewhat slows down normal disk activity, but I can bear that on a desktop system. -- Guido Falsi <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
