From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 12 13:43:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA26285 for current-outgoing; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 13:43:29 -0800 Received: from poe.b2.org (poe.b2.org [206.55.128.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA26252 ; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 13:43:24 -0800 Received: (from mlh@localhost) by poe.b2.org (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA25877; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 16:42:48 -0500 Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 16:42:48 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Hendrick To: Jake Hamby cc: Peter Dufault , current@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISP state their FreeBSD concerns In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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)