Subject: Re: lm with K8VNXP? + softdep issue
To: None <port-amd64@netbsd.org>
From: Andreas Kahari <ak+netbsd@freeshell.org>
List: port-amd64
Date: 03/07/2004 01:17:30
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 10:36:06PM +0000, Andreas Kahari wrote:
> Hi,
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> Another thing:  If I mount my drives with softdep, the system
> sometimes "freezes" for short periods of time (about 3-5
> seconds or so).  This seems to occur under heavy disk activity
> (rebuilding userland) when the pagedeamon process which will
> use a lot of CPU periodically.  Is this a known issue, or a
> non-issue?  I thought it was annoying enough to make me disable
> softdep.
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Correction:  This happens even without softdep enabled.  It's on
a serial ATA drive and it seems to happen when a lot of files
get created during a short period of time.



Cheers,
Andreas

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