Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 15:05:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alterations to vops Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007071504350.72231-100000@login-1.eunet.no> In-Reply-To: <200007070143.SAA96248@apollo.backplane.com>
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> What may be happening here is stalling in namei(). find and cvsup > are very heavy on path lookups and that combined with seek latency > on the drive could result in filesystem locks on directories being > held for much longer periods of time then normal. Any other process > trying to 'open' a file (verses reading or writing an already-open file) > would start to stall. Wouldn't this problem be alleviated by making the operations incremental, rather than performing the whole thing in one go in kernelspace? Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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