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Date:      Sun, 9 Nov 2008 15:35:30 -0500
From:      "matt donovan" <kitchetech@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sluggish scheduling during a long disk copy
Message-ID:  <28283d910811091235q70181b52nc4235aea61518cd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081109203241.GB8395@ourbrains.org>
References:  <20081109202149.GA7091@ourbrains.org> <991123400811091225t392bd3f3i531dbe348a13e5e4@mail.gmail.com> <20081109203241.GB8395@ourbrains.org>

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On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Dan <dan-freebsd-questions@ourbrains.org>wrote:

> Odhiambo Washington(odhiambo@gmail.com)@2008.11.09 23:25:19 +0300:
> > On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Dan <
> dan-freebsd-questions@ourbrains.org>wrote:
> >
> > > Hello. I am copying one 150G disk to a 3ware mirror, and the machine
> > > becomes downright unusable. It takes seconds to switch between
> 'konsole'
> > > windows and it takes seconds between I type a command (ssh session to
> > > a remote box, which I know is fast and unloaded) and see it executed.
> > >
> > > This is 7.1-BETA2. Is this a bug or a generally-accepted performance
> > > behavior?
> >
> >
> > Bug? :-)
> >
> > How are you copying?
>
>
> I am copying an 'ntfs-3g'-mounted disk to the 3ware mirror with cp -a.
> It's around 150G of data, and it's going at about 10MB/s to the mirror.
> The mirror uses geom journaling. The speed is fine, the disks are slow.
> But should the copy really freeze-up the system like that?
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could be an issue with ntfs-3g driver



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