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Date:      Sun, 18 May 2008 22:45:30 +0200
From:      Daniel Ponticello <daniel@skytek.it>
To:        cliftonr@lava.net
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Disk access/MPT under ESX3.5
Message-ID:  <4830956A.80000@skytek.it>
In-Reply-To: <20080518182827.GA18109@lava.net>
References:  <48303A1B.9000103@skytek.it> <20080518182827.GA18109@lava.net>

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Clifton Royston ha scritto:
>
> If you are accessing a software emulation of a SCSI disk, I would
> offhand expect the CPU load to go up substantially when you are reading
> or writing it at the maximum achievable bandwidth.  You can't expect
> normal relative load results under an emulator, and while most
> application or kernel code runs natively, I/O under VMWare will zoom in
> and out of the emulator a lot.  I'm afraid I can't give you a
> definitive answer as I have VMWare but haven't set up FreeBSD under it
> yet.
>  
>   -- Clifton
>   
Thanks Clifton,
my problem is that system (console) becomes very unresponsive when I/O 
is writing at maximum bandwidth.
Anyway, system becomes more responsive when using ULE scheduler instead 
of 4BSD during I/O.
Is there a way to limit the maximum I/O bandwidth used by the controller?

Daniel

-- 

WBR,
Cordiali Saluti,
 
Daniel Ponticello, VP of Engineering

Network Coordination Centre of Skytek

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