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Date:      Sat, 10 May 2003 12:25:52 +0300
From:      Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee>
To:        Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Interrupt latency problems
Message-ID:  <20030510092552.GA20447@kevad.internal>
In-Reply-To: <3EBD1D65.1060104@isi.edu>
References:  <1052570246.27195.6.camel@cf.freebsd-services.com> <3EBD1D65.1060104@isi.edu>

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On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 08:40:21AM -0700, Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> wrote:

> >When working in X and updating ports which causes a lot of disk activity
> >I get *very* poor interactive responses. Keypresses can not appear for
> >seconds and mouse movement is very jerky and unresponsive.
> >Is anyone else seeing anything like this?
> 
> I do, but with SCSI disks and on an SMP box. So I doubt it's the ATA 
> subsystem alone.

Same here, with SCSI disks and SMP box. This is a long time problem
and I personally think that perhaps 6.x will give us normal system
again.
-- 
Vallo Kallaste



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