From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 2 22:25:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9389A14C7F; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 22:25:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA01914; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 22:25:11 -0700 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 22:24:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Alex Povolotsky Cc: John Polstra , current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Soft-updates feedback In-Reply-To: <199907030501.JAA31071@shuttle.svib.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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