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To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Extremely poor interactive response under heave SCSI load 
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Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 17:26:50 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Has anyone else noticed that a system with a large mount of unused (hence dis
k
> cache) ram while under heavy SCSI load (or not so heavy really, e.g:

This has been a known bug for ages.  If you really want to test it
out, try running mkisofs on a large image and then try to do
something; I first encountered this back in FreeBSD 2.0 days. ;-)

I also doubt that the fix is trivial or John Dyson / David Greenman
would have done something about it the first time I reported it back
in December of 1994 (folks like Matt Dillon having also since reported
on variations of it).

					Jordan