From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 2 22:53:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (216-200-29-190.snj0.flashcom.net [216.200.29.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3586914D52 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 22:53:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA05878; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 22:53:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199907030553.WAA05878@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Soft-updates feedback In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 02 Jul 1999 22:24:42 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 22:53:21 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Make sure that you have dma enable on your IDE disks . Basically, soft-updates does short bursts of disk activities which can crash a disk or slow down a system during the disk i/o operations using PIO. Yes, I have seen disks spin mindlessly due to the "intensive" short burts of disk io activities and the problem went away by switching to DMA. -- Amancio Hasty ahasty@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message