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From: Michael Hendrick <mlh@poe.b2.org>
To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
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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. 

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    mlh@b2.org
(Michael Hendrick)