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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: TTY pauses during lots of SCSI I/O
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Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 01:25:03 -0500 (EST)
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I have a system here with 12 disks across four controllers (news server) and
if I do someting like a du -sk or find of the spool area the whole system
(interactive response) goes into the toilet, with pauses between characters as
you type (bursty) sometimes up to a second... Any ideas for tuning or what
causes this?

-Crh

       Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

                         http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich