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Date:      Sat, 24 Aug 1996 19:23:37 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        brianc@pobox.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Multiple swaps slow down system?
Message-ID:  <199608250223.TAA20313@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199608250134.VAA00204@ottawa.net> from "Brian Campbell" at Aug 24, 96 09:34:24 pm

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> Oh?  There's no busmastering IDE support yet?  Is it in the works?

Yes, we have a team standing by for the moment when engineers who
can build a working IDE chipset get funding.

> Would you suggesting using SCSI for swap even if the IDE drive has
> 50% higher throughput?  Is latency an issue?

Concurrency us an issue, and processor overhead may or may not bean
issue.

> Any hints for finding out why w/ swap on either IDE or SCSI, shutdown
> takes less than 15s, but when using both it takes more than 60s?

Not a clue.  I'd have to see it do it...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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