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...a priority to a link/flow, we can control how the threads associated with that link/flow is processed w.r.t other link/flows. When the system is busy, threads with higher priority will have a greater slice of CPU time, than the ones with lower priority. The kernel provides priority range between MINCLSYSPRI (60) and MAXCLSYSPRI (100) for threads in the system class. We define three levels of priority - low, medium and high within the range MINCLSYSPRI and MAXCLSYSPRI. The priority level can be assigned when creating a virtual link (say VNIC) or can be modified for an existing link using dladm(1m). Th...

I just had a quick play with gzip compression on a filesystem and the result was the machine grinding to a halt while copying some large (.wav) files to it from another filesystem in the same pool. The system became very unresponsive, taking several seconds to echo keystrokes. The box is a maxed out AMD QuadFX, so it should have plenty of grunt for this. Comments? Ian