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Date:      Sat, 16 Nov 1996 22:55:30 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Raul Zighelboim <mango@staff.communique.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel optimization and PCI ... 
Message-ID:  <6562.848181330@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 16 Nov 1996 15:36:17 CST." <c=US%a=_%p=Communique._Inc.%l=KAORI-961116213617Z-1061@kaori.communique.net> 

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In message <c=US%a=_%p=Communique._Inc.%l=KAORI-961116213617Z-1061@kaori.commun
ique.net>, Raul Zighelboim writes:
>
>My system has two serial ports, using IRQ 3 and 4.
>I do not need those ports at all.

if you disable them in the bios, you should be able to reuse the irq's.

>Otherwise, what are the requirment/conditions that would allowed me to
>set # AUTO_EOI_2 on the kernel in a safe way ?

Have you tried ?  Most of the problems are with laptops I belive.

>Finnaly, my PPro 200 with 256Megs of ram seems to be unresponsive some
>times.  It is specially slow to respond to the command (df). Is there
>somethin I should look into in particular ?

Doing a df forces all metadate to be written, that takes time.  Watch
with systat(1) and you can see it happen.

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