Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:24:18 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Soft-updates feedback Message-ID: <37938972.1CFBAE39@whistle.com> References: <199907030501.JAA31071@shuttle.svib.ru>
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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 I saw this behaviour before.. It was with an IDE disk drive running in PIO mode turning on DMA mode for the disk fixed it. I have no idea as to what was goin wrong, however I suggest that you try a kernel from -current as there has been a lot of change in the areas that might cause this sort of thing. julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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