Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 16:34:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alterations to vops Message-ID: <200007092334.QAA12313@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007082153020.33233-100000@green.dyndns.org>
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:I'm still missing something. Why does a process that isn't doing anything
:on the filesystem still freezing? My disks are DMA, so there shouldn't be
:any tim ethat the kernel is busy-waiting for a seek, right? You explained
:why the I/O from one process can totally destroy the I/O bandwidth of the
:other, thank you :), but I don't see how that relates to the other part
:of this problem.
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: Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! /
It *is* doing something w/ the filesystem. If you are talking about
vi, which was your earlier message, the first time you go into
an edit mode vi creates a spill file.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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