Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 16:09:31 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: system hangs with soft updates Message-ID: <19980917160931.B3997@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980916170147.1530G-100000@current1.whistle.com> References: <19980916230821.A282@scientia.demon.co.uk> <Pine.BSF.3.95.980916170147.1530G-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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Julian Elischer wrote: > At the time you hit the last key, the machine was already servicing a disk > interrupt.. it this always there? I've only tried this once: I'll repeat if a few times, follow some of Mike's advice, and see if it's always fairly similar. > maybe this never completes, but keeps scheduling new work. > is the disk busy? If busy == light on, then yes. If busy == actually doing anything, then no, as far as I can tell (perhaps it's just doing something very quietly...) -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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