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Date:      Sun, 10 Feb 2002 22:47:14 +0200
From:      Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_softdep.c
Message-ID:  <20020210224714.A269@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <200202101911.g1AJBOk30917@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 11:11:24AM -0800
References:  <20020210113348.P28078-100000@patrocles.silby.com> <200202101911.g1AJBOk30917@apollo.backplane.com>

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 Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 11:11:24, dillon (Matthew Dillon) wrote about "Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_softdep.c": 

>     On the second issue - long disk activity times after a 'syncing disks...
>     done'.  This can occur if there are a lot of dirty VM pages in the
>     system belonging to files that need to be written out.  This can take an
>     especially long time if a large file was created with ftruncate()
>     and written via mmap() instead of write(), because the file can become
>     severely fragmented.

Three cases when this happened: two were deleting of too deep tree (first
with this activity >1 minute, second with ~20 secs), one
was immediately after exiting mutt with huge folder (cvs-all@ inbox;))
in maildir format, with ~50 deleted letters; this one was ~10 secs.
Cel-800, 256M, IC35L040AVER07-0 at ATA100 with tags, 4.5-release.
Moment which can be important: vfs.vmiodirenable=1. I didn't test it yet
with vfs.vmiodirenable=0, it will be tried now.


/netch

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