> As for NEW_BUFQ_STATEGY, the comments sound like it would be very
> beneficial:
>
> "Enable experimental buffer queue strategy for better responsiveness
> under high disk I/O load. Likely stable but not yet the default."
>
> I am noticing some pretty severe slow-down's when I, for instance, untar
> pkgsrc. It was really quite bad actually, while it was doing it I did a
> `ps ax`, which took around 30 seconds (possibly more) to return and
> print to the console! If it makes any difference, I am using UFS2 and
> softdep.

Yup, I too am curious on the NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY option. Like Mark, I
had some pretty server slow-downs during high disk loads ...... while
untar-ing pkgsrc, or moving large directories from one place to
another, etc ......

Thanks,
Rakhesh

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