Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:49:08 +0100 From: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates bug shows on zip drive and parallel port in NIBBLE mode Message-ID: <19990123164908.45330@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> In-Reply-To: <199901230634.BAA22200@kot.ne.mediaone.net>; from Mikhail Teterin on Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 01:34:40AM -0500 References: <199901230634.BAA22200@kot.ne.mediaone.net>
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On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 01:34:40AM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > >I tried both cam and bio -- no difference. It is not that it's >slow -- I was prepared for that, it is that it totally hangs -- >forever. > >I narrowed it down to softupdates. If I disable the softupdates on >the cartridge's filesystem copying finishes successfully. Somehow >the `cp' process takes 150% of the CPU time (purely single CPU system), >but that's a different story, I guess. The drive is polling-capable only. So it makes no difference with the cam/bio configuration. And it explains your performance result. > >I hope, this sad experience of mine will help further improve >softupdates. Thanks. -- nsouch@teaser.fr / nsouch@freebsd.org FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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