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Date:      Tue, 24 May 2005 09:41:32 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)
Message-ID:  <20050524164131.GB62519@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <4293571C.1040109@incubus.de>
References:  <3248.172.16.0.199.1116876092.squirrel@172.16.0.1> <42924949.1070902@incubus.de> <20050523213155.GA46718@xor.obsecurity.org> <200505240922.42822.fcash@ocis.net> <4293571C.1040109@incubus.de>

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On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 06:32:28PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> Freddie Cash wrote:
>=20
> > The laptop has an ATI IXP chipset, which means the HD is detected and r=
un=20
> > as a generic UDMA33 device.  The kernel is using the 4BSD scheduler wit=
h=20
> > PREEMPTION enabled, all debugging hints disabled, and all the mpsafe=20
> > sysctls enabled.
>=20
> Hmm.. maybe the disk (interface) is just too slow to trigger this when
> running in UDMA33 (and a slow notebook disk).. I have observed it on a
> SATA Seagate setup (on ICH6 chipset).  Just a wild guess.

I'd expect a slow disk to make worse the problem of blocking waiting
for disk I/O.

Kris
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