Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 00:55:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alterations to vops Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007100054440.33233-100000@green.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200007092334.QAA12313@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > : > :I'm still missing something. Why does a process that isn't doing anything > :on the filesystem still freezing? My disks are DMA, so there shouldn't be > :any tim ethat the kernel is busy-waiting for a seek, right? You explained > :why the I/O from one process can totally destroy the I/O bandwidth of the > :other, thank you :), but I don't see how that relates to the other part > :of this problem. > : > :-- > : Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / > > It *is* doing something w/ the filesystem. If you are talking about > vi, which was your earlier message, the first time you go into > an edit mode vi creates a spill file. I'm more referring to the emulators freezing here. > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <dillon@backplane.com> -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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