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To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: Heavy activity bogs down system 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 May 2000 12:05:38 BST."
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Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 17:11:15 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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This is an old bug, I hate to say, and can be reproduced on something
as beefy as a K7/900 machine (with fast SCSI disks) simply by running
mkisofs.  I mentioned it to John Dyson once and he mentioned something
about things like mkisofs starving the rest of the paging system for
I/O.

- Jordan


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