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Date:      Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:50:13 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>, Morgan =?utf-8?q?Wesstr=C3=B6m?= <freebsd-questions@pp.dyndns.biz>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues
Message-ID:  <201001191250.23625.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <4B54C5EE.5070305@pp.dyndns.biz>
References:  <4B54C100.9080906@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4B54C5EE.5070305@pp.dyndns.biz>

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On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Morgan Wesstr=F6m wrote:
> The disks involved don't happen to be Western Digital Green Power
> disks, do they? The Intelli-Park function in these disks are wrecking
> havoc with I/O in Linux-land at least, causing massive stalls and
> iowait through the roof during the 25-30 seconds it takes for the
> heads to unload after parking. I have two of these disks sitting on
> my desk now collecting dust...

There's this..
http://www.silentpcreview.com/Terabyte_Drive_Fix

and you can get the tool at..
http://home.arcor.de/ghostadmin/wdidle3_1_00.zip

I am planning to try this out tonight..

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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are so many of them to choose from."
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