> In message <199601182321.XAA05041@doublesix.domino.org>, "Neil J. McRae"
> writes :
> 
> has anyone looked into turning _off_ the kernel reordering of writes?

I'm about too, There was a talk at Usenix about this reordering and the
stats given there it would appear to have a high impact to CPU time, after
some advice from cgd, I'm about to profile for a bit to find out if
the slowness really is in FFS, I'm almost fully convinced that it is...

I'd be real interested to hear from anyone else concerning this?

Neil.

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