Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 16:42:48 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Hendrick <mlh@poe.b2.org> To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>, current@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISP state their FreeBSD concerns Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951112163755.25851A-100000@poe.b2.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951112103326.426B-100000@localhost>
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On Sun, 12 Nov 1995, Jake Hamby wrote:
> > > 1. A concern that FreeBSD tends to "bind" for brief periods when
> > > loaded...
> > We have three SCSI only systems and haven't ever seen this, and
> > one IDE system that pauses.
> On my system at home (486DX4/100, 850MB Western Digital IDE, VLB IDE
> controller, 24MB RAM) the system does seem to freeze up for as much as 5
> seconds when I start up a large process such as Netscape or cause one of
When I had IDE drives, this would also happen quite frequently under
Linux, so I would guess a timing problem of some sort with the IDE
controller, not specific to FreeBSD.
--
mlh@b2.org
(Michael Hendrick)
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