From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 9 21:55:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7968837C49E; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:55:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 00:55:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman X-Sender: green@green.dyndns.org To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Marius Bendiksen , Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alterations to vops In-Reply-To: <200007092334.QAA12313@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > -- 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