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Date:      Sat, 1 Jun 1996 02:39:59 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, mrm@MARMOT.Mole.ORG, sextonr.crestvie@squared.com
Subject:   Re: Disktab and SCSI Performance.
Message-ID:  <199605311639.CAA12346@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>Rotdelay and/or artificially increased interleave can be useful for
>fast disks, too. It can be used to prevent a fast drive on a non-dma
>controller from starving the CPU to the exclusion of user programs.
>Sometimes slowing disk I/O can be an advantage. From experience :-)

Can it be used to prevent fast ID drives from starving the CPU to the
exclusion of kernel code? :-)

Bruce



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