From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 18 04:57:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A252116A4CE for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 04:57:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2AF043D1F for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 04:57:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 39E89531F; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:57:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id AF250530D; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:55:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 3341733C6C; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:55:43 +0200 (CEST) To: Roger Marquis References: <20040417190059.06B0316A4F7@hub.freebsd.org> <20040418031017.98ACEDAC11@mx7.roble.com> From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:55:43 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20040418031017.98ACEDAC11@mx7.roble.com> (Roger Marquis's message of "Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:10:17 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is log_in_vain really good or really bad? X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 11:57:30 -0000 Roger Marquis writes: > This is hardware problem. Any ATA/SATA disk will suck up CPU with > every disk access. The solution is to switch to SCSI. This is simply not true, and hasn't been for about ten years. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no