From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Nov 16 13:55:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA22687 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 13:55:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA22678; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 13:55:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost.phk.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id WAA06564; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 22:55:30 +0100 (MET) To: Raul Zighelboim cc: freebsd-hardware@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel optimization and PCI ... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 16 Nov 1996 15:36:17 CST." Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 22:55:30 +0100 Message-ID: <6562.848181330@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message , Raul Zighelboim writes: > >My system has two serial ports, using IRQ 3 and 4. >I do not need those ports at all. if you disable them in the bios, you should be able to reuse the irq's. >Otherwise, what are the requirment/conditions that would allowed me to >set # AUTO_EOI_2 on the kernel in a safe way ? Have you tried ? Most of the problems are with laptops I belive. >Finnaly, my PPro 200 with 256Megs of ram seems to be unresponsive some >times. It is specially slow to respond to the command (df). Is there >somethin I should look into in particular ? Doing a df forces all metadate to be written, that takes time. Watch with systat(1) and you can see it happen. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.