Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 22:24:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Soft-updates feedback Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907022224210.1622-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <199907030501.JAA31071@shuttle.svib.ru>
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while this is happening, what does 'iostat 1' and 'vmstat 1' tell you? On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Alex Povolotsky wrote: > About a week ago, I've posted a message here and didn't got positive replies. > > The problem is: > > when I use soft-updates on IDE disks (disk on primary master, disk on > secondary master, CD on primary slave), any active disk-using program > (starting Netscape, starting EXMH) causes all other programs literally to stop > for several seconds (well, 20-30 seconds is quite often!). Turning > soft-updates off causes this nastiness to disappear, but also slows down > disk-active processess. > > Alex. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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