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From: Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee>
To: Lars Eggert <larse@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.
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Vallo Kallaste