Re: aio #2: why aren't we doing async writes?

On ons, 2008-06-11 at 20:01 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> What I need to do is get this Sun box actually running Solaris and try to
> get dtrace to tell me what time is spent in the main thread blocking on
> disk writes.

On Solaris you defenitely want async writes and closes, as Solaris UFS
by default uses sync metadata writes, which means close (and unlink)
blocks...

Regards
Henrik