From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 17 10:17:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA15746 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:17:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA15735 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:17:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.03 #1) id 0zJfgZ-0001CE-00; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 16:09:31 +0100 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 16:09:31 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Julian Elischer Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: system hangs with soft updates Message-ID: <19980917160931.B3997@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <19980916230821.A282@scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.3i (FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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