On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Julian Coleman wrote:

> After upgrading my Ultra 1 to 1.5Y (sup from Fri 19), I no longer get the
> lockups every so often.  Previously, running sup or compiling a kernel
> would cause all disk access to fail at some random point.  Now it's fine ;-)
>
> The is one oddity - every few seconds (say 3 - 5), the machine pauses,
> sometimes it's very noticeable and a key press get lost or duplicated.
> I think this occurs when ioflush runs but I'm not 100% sure.  ioflush is
> certainly using lots of CPU - about 1 second for 1 minute of uptime - I
> can't remember how much it used before.

	Just to confirm I'mseeing this on an Ultra1/e also. I wonder
	if people are seeing it on PCI based ultra boxes?

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