Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 15:37:31 +0930 From: Garth Kidd <garth@dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au> To: Brett Glass <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com>, Garth Kidd <garth@dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au>, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: hdalog@zipnet.net, davidg@Root.COM, hardware@FreeBSD.org, bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cannot boot after install Message-ID: <960402184753.ZM2871@jolt.systems.sa.gov.au> In-Reply-To: Brett Glass <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com> <"Re: Cannot boot after install"@state.systems.sa.gov.au> (Apr 1, 18:38) References: <9603018284.AA828409505@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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> > That might be fine for normal filesystem access, Brett, but consider
> > your poor swap partition. If a page fault occurs, the kernel's just
> > going to have to sit around and wait for the drive to spin up, ne?
>
> Not necessarily. It is possible for tasks that have NOT page faulted to
> keep running while others are waiting for pages to arrive.
That's a nice trick. Deem whistles and cheers included for whomever is
responsible :).
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