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FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE available

Posted Mar 2, 2008 19:41 UTC (Sun) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)
In reply to: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE available by dirtyepic
Parent article: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE available

My anecdotal evidence is that CFS gave my Gentoo-compiling laptop much, much better
interactive feel.

The thing that hurts interactivity for me is disk writes, the IO queue fills and then its
goodbye disk scheduling, hello, pause, page-in, pause, screen update, pause, lag, lag, lag.


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