From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon May 8 14:51:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5732E37BC16 for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 14:51:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA14638; Mon, 8 May 2000 22:45:53 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 22:45:53 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Peter Radcliffe Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Heavy activity bogs down system Message-ID: <20000508224553.A14310@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20000504120537.A5958@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <20000504173021.E24640@pir.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000504173021.E24640@pir.net>; from pir@pir.net on Thu, May 04, 2000 at 05:30:21PM -0400 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 05:30:21PM -0400, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > Nik Clayton probably said: > > wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa > > wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): > > wd0: 6194MB (12685680 sectors), 13424 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > > wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa > > wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): , removable, accel, ovlap, dma, iordis > > [...] > > > > Any thoughts? > > Look into the flags for wd. You can enable more efficient transfer modes > if you controller supports them. I normally use 'flags 0xc0ffc0ff'. I tried that. And then I reliased that I had the 3.2 sources on the machine, but a 3.2PAO binary install. So rebooting with the new kernel lost me my networking :-( So, I've decided to bite the bullet and upgrade to 4-stable[1]. Of course, now I won't know which change fixed the problem :-( N [1] I cheated. "buildworld" on one machine, then NFS mount / and /usr from the laptop and "installworld" on to it. Some tweaking of /dev and the installation of a new kernel later and you're done, without running the risk of rebooting with a conflicting world/kernel. -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message