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Date:      Sat, 10 May 2003 15:48:39 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Interrupt latency problems 
Message-ID:  <22333.1052574519@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "10 May 2003 13:37:27 BST." <1052570246.27195.6.camel@cf.freebsd-services.com> 

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In message <1052570246.27195.6.camel@cf.freebsd-services.com>, Paul Richards wr
ites:
>I'm having real problems with current with heavy disk activity.
>
>When working in X and updating ports which causes a lot of disk activity
>I get *very* poor interactive responses. Keypresses can not appear for
>seconds and mouse movement is very jerky and unresponsive.
>
>I'm wondering if something is holding locks a long time in interrupt
>handlers and causing mouse/keyboard interrupts to be lost?

We have this lock called "Giant" which we're trying to get rid off...

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