From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 2 21:57:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from asteroid.svib.ru (asteroid.svib.ru [195.151.166.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AF0D14BB8; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 21:57:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru) Received: from shuttle.svib.ru (shuttle.svib.ru [195.151.166.144]) by asteroid.svib.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA19340; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 08:57:25 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru) Received: from shuttle.svib.ru (minas-tirith.pol.ru [127.0.0.1]) by shuttle.svib.ru (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA31071; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 09:01:15 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from tarkhil@shuttle.svib.ru) Message-Id: <199907030501.JAA31071@shuttle.svib.ru> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.3 To: John Polstra Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Soft-updates feedback In-reply-to: Your message "Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:54:23 PDT." Reply-To: tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru X-URL: http://freebsd.svib.ru Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 09:01:14 +0400 From: Alex Povolotsky Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG About a week ago, I've posted a message here and didn't got positive replies. The problem is: when I use soft-updates on IDE disks (disk on primary master, disk on secondary master, CD on primary slave), any active disk-using program (starting Netscape, starting EXMH) causes all other programs literally to stop for several seconds (well, 20-30 seconds is quite often!). Turning soft-updates off causes this nastiness to disappear, but also slows down disk-active processess. Alex. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message