Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
> 
> Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@kpnQwest.no> writes:
> 
> > Ken Wellsch <kwellsch@tampabay.rr.com> writes:
> >
> > > Writing with putc()...^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^Z^Z^Z^Z^Z^Z^Z^\^\^\  (no affect)
> > > load: 6.38  cmd: bonnie 314 [uvn_fp1] 15.94u 7.80s 0% 296k
> > > load: 6.43  cmd: bonnie 314 [uvn_fp1] 15.93u 7.81s 0% 296k
> > > [...]
> > > with every new ^T I type, the load climbs...
> > > [...]
> > > system responds to pings also but that is about it.
> 
> > This might be related to a problem I see [...] just like the above,
> > except that the state reported by ^T is "[getnewbuf]".
> 
> It's still there in -current (at least on the Sparc), and it only
> occurs during large scale writing to partitions that are mounted with
> the softdep option.

Good point - I've started enabling softdep on /usr to aid in disk performance
on my slower systems and had it enabled on the VAX that produced the
issue mentioned above.