On Jan 8, 2010, at 7:49 PM, bank kus wrote:

> dd if=/dev/urandom of=largefile.txt bs=1G count=8
> 
> cp largefile.txt ./test/1.txt &
> cp largefile.txt ./test/2.txt &
> 
> Thats it now the system is totally unusable after launching the two 8G 
> copies. Until these copies finish no other application is able to launch 
> completely. Checking prstat shows them to be in the sleep state. 

What disk drivers are you using?  IDE?
 -- richard

> 
> Question:
> <> I m guessing this because ZFS doesnt use CFQ and that one process is 
> allowed to queue up all its I/O reads ahead of other processes?
> 
> <> Is there a concept of priority among I/O reads? I only ask because if root 
> were to launch some GUI application they dont start up until both copies are 
> done. So there is no concept of priority? Needless to say this does not exist 
> on Linux 2.60...
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