From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jul 7 6: 5:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F8DB37BC92 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 06:05:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id PAA29726; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 15:05:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA72256; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 15:05:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 15:05:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alterations to vops In-Reply-To: <200007070143.SAA96248@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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