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From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <mekanix@privat.dk>
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Subject: Heavy diskaccess slows computer down.
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 11:22:38 +0200
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I have observed that when there is some heavy diskactivity (unpacking of a 
large tarball or downloading multiple (10+) files) my Xsession/KDE chokes 
sometimes to a temporary freeze/halt.

Guess it's some kind of IRQ-conflict. Now, is there some way to solve this? I 
know that linux had this irqtune-tool, where I could change the IRQ's and 
priority of the various channels. Is something similar possible with FreeBSD?

Bjarne

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