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Date:      Tue, 24 May 2005 18:32:28 +0200
From:      Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>
To:        Freddie Cash <fcash@ocis.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)
Message-ID:  <4293571C.1040109@incubus.de>
In-Reply-To: <200505240922.42822.fcash@ocis.net>
References:  <3248.172.16.0.199.1116876092.squirrel@172.16.0.1>	<42924949.1070902@incubus.de>	<20050523213155.GA46718@xor.obsecurity.org> <200505240922.42822.fcash@ocis.net>

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Freddie Cash wrote:

> The laptop has an ATI IXP chipset, which means the HD is detected and run 
> as a generic UDMA33 device.  The kernel is using the 4BSD scheduler with 
> PREEMPTION enabled, all debugging hints disabled, and all the mpsafe 
> sysctls enabled.

Hmm.. maybe the disk (interface) is just too slow to trigger this when
running in UDMA33 (and a slow notebook disk).. I have observed it on a
SATA Seagate setup (on ICH6 chipset).  Just a wild guess.

mkb.



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