On Wed, Jun 11, 2008, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On ons, 2008-06-11 at 20:01 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > What I need to do is get this Sun box actually running Solaris and try to > > get dtrace to tell me what time is spent in the main thread blocking on > > disk writes. > > On Solaris you defenitely want async writes and closes, as Solaris UFS > by default uses sync metadata writes, which means close (and unlink) > blocks...
I wonder what FreeBSD does, and whether this accounts for the performance difference between aufs and diskd on that platform. Hm! Adrian -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA -
