From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 23 07:15:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA10451 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 07:15:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from reliam.teaser.fr (reliam.teaser.fr [194.51.80.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA10446 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 07:15:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from son@teaser.fr) Received: from teaser.fr (ppp1087-ft.teaser.fr [194.206.156.40]) by reliam.teaser.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with ESMTP id QAA01733; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:15:04 +0100 (MET) Received: (from son@localhost) by teaser.fr (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA91604; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:49:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from son) Message-ID: <19990123164908.45330@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:49:08 +0100 From: Nicolas Souchu To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates bug shows on zip drive and parallel port in NIBBLE mode References: <199901230634.BAA22200@kot.ne.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <199901230634.BAA22200@kot.ne.mediaone.net>; from Mikhail Teterin on Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 01:34:40AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD breizh 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 01:34:40AM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > >I tried both cam and bio -- no difference. It is not that it's >slow -- I was prepared for that, it is that it totally hangs -- >forever. > >I narrowed it down to softupdates. If I disable the softupdates on >the cartridge's filesystem copying finishes successfully. Somehow >the `cp' process takes 150% of the CPU time (purely single CPU system), >but that's a different story, I guess. The drive is polling-capable only. So it makes no difference with the cam/bio configuration. And it explains your performance result. > >I hope, this sad experience of mine will help further improve >softupdates. Thanks. -- nsouch@teaser.fr / nsouch@freebsd.org FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message