From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Apr 2 00:23:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA19980 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 00:23:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from arnie.systems.sa.gov.au (arnie.systems.sa.gov.au [143.216.242.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA19726 Tue, 2 Apr 1996 00:19:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from state.systems.sa.gov.au by arnie.systems.sa.gov.au (PMDF V4.3-7 #13538) id <01I32P5HM8VK003AH1@arnie.systems.sa.gov.au>; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 17:45:41 +1030 Received: from dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au (dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au) by state.systems.sa.gov.au (PMDF V5.0-4 #13538) id <01I32P57FSCW002R40@state.systems.sa.gov.au>; Tue, 02 Apr 1996 17:45:27 +0930 Received: from jolt.systems.sa.gov.au (jolt.systems.sa.gov.au [143.216.237.8]) by dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA01937; Tue, 02 Apr 1996 17:51:22 +0930 Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 15:37:31 +0930 From: Garth Kidd Subject: Re: Cannot boot after install In-reply-to: Brett Glass <"Re: Cannot boot after install"@state.systems.sa.gov.au> (Apr 1, 18:38) To: Brett Glass , Garth Kidd , msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: hdalog@zipnet.net, davidg@Root.COM, hardware@FreeBSD.org, bugs@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <960402184753.ZM2871@jolt.systems.sa.gov.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Z-Mail 4.0 (4.0.0 Aug 21 1995) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <9603018284.AA828409505@ccgate.infoworld.com> Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 :). -- garth@dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au | Garth Kidd +61-8-207-7740 (voice) | Professional Services Division +61-8-207-7860 (fax) | Southern Systems | Adelaide, AUSTRALIA