From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 12 12:13:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 248F616A4CE for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 12:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dynamic.hydro.washington.edu (dynamic.hydro.washington.edu [128.95.246.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 713DE43D49 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 12:13:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from penglish@hydro.washington.edu) Received: from dynamic.hydro.washington.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i4CJDs0U002145; Wed, 12 May 2004 12:13:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from penglish@hydro.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (penglish@localhost)i4CJDs0W002142; Wed, 12 May 2004 12:13:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from penglish@hydro.washington.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: dynamic.hydro.washington.edu: penglish owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 12:13:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul English To: Harald Schmalzbauer In-Reply-To: <200405121419.27787@harryhomeworkstation> Message-ID: <20040512120723.H2008-100000@dynamic.hydro.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystem/disk performance problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 19:13:56 -0000 On Wed, 12 May 2004, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Am Dienstag, 11. Mai 2004 23:42 schrieb Paul English: > > I have a filesystem which is showing some very odd problems on FreeBSD > > 4.4. The system has one 60GB IDE drive for the os and some user partitions > > and one 800GB array of 120GB disks attached to a 3ware IDE-RAID controller. > > The latter is all one big partition. > > > > For most files and directories, copying/transferring them around is not a > > problem. But for a couple of very specific directories, copying them seems > > next to impossible. When I attempt to copy these, after a few minutes of > > *extremely* slow copying (<1k/min), the system load shoots up and the > > system becomes virtually unusable. > > Maybe you want to read the following and try the patch: > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=32920+0+archive/2004/freebsd-stable/20040509.freebsd-stable > > I'm not sure wether it patches cleanly against 4.4 but I'm sure you'll get > assistance by the discussing people. Thanks Harry - that certainly sounds applicable. I'm working on a system-wide upgrade to 4.9 right now so getting it to work with 4.4 may be a non-issue. It looks like I should plan on patching 4.9 though! I'm glad to see that 3ware finally has mention of a new beta driver for 4.8. Maybe they hired a FreeBSD person at last! Paul