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Date:      Wed, 22 Mar 2000 23:34:11 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>, Richard Wendland <richard@netcraft.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, current@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD random I/O performance issues
Message-ID:  <38D9B306.2781E494@elischer.org>
References:  <200003222039.MAA00661@mass.cdrom.com>

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This is one of the things that made us do so badly
in the benchmarks against NT/Linux last year.
OBVIOUSLY one should be able to re-read this infoirmation
without affecting a pending write.

Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> >     effects of the I/O being in-progress.  If a user program doesn't access
> >     any of the information it recently wrote the whole mechanism winds up
> >     operating asynchronously in the background.  If a user program does,
> >     then the write behind mechanism breaks down and you get a stall.
> 
> What makes no sense is that it should be perfectly ok to _read_ this
> information back.
> 


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