Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 12 Nov 1995 16:42:48 -0500 (EST)
From:      Michael Hendrick <mlh@poe.b2.org>
To:        Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
Cc:        Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>, current@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ISP state their FreeBSD concerns
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951112163755.25851A-100000@poe.b2.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951112103326.426B-100000@localhost>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, 12 Nov 1995, Jake Hamby wrote:

> > > 1.	A concern that FreeBSD tends to "bind" for brief periods when
> > > 	loaded...

> > We have three SCSI only systems and haven't ever seen this, and
> > one IDE system that pauses.

> On my system at home (486DX4/100, 850MB Western Digital IDE, VLB IDE
> controller, 24MB RAM) the system does seem to freeze up for as much as 5
> seconds when I start up a large process such as Netscape or cause one of

When I had IDE drives, this would also happen quite frequently under
Linux, so I would guess a timing problem of some sort with the IDE
controller, not specific to FreeBSD. 

-- 
    mlh@b2.org
(Michael Hendrick)




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.91.951112163755.25851A-100000>