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Date:      Fri, 19 Oct 2001 16:14:53 -0400
From:      "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   async isn't all that async?
Message-ID:  <200110192014.QAA35160@cs.rpi.edu>

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I was doing a profile recently between FreeBSD and Linux and I notice that
FreeBSD's -o async really isn't that async.  Specifically the Linux operation
completed and then 15 seconds later the disk writes were committed, under
FreeBSD many of the operations seemed to be waiting on disk (I ktraced, 
no mention of '-i sync' in anything... so no open options, to fcntl()s).

Could someone shed a bit of light on this?

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