From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 9 16:34:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 965DF37B90E; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 16:34:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA12313; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 16:34:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 16:34:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200007092334.QAA12313@apollo.backplane.com> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman Cc: Marius Bendiksen , Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alterations to vops References: Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :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. : :-- : 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message