Re: Soft-updates feedback

[Amancio Hasty]

Make sure that you have dma enable on your IDE disks . Basically, soft-updates
does short bursts of disk activities which can crash a disk or slow down
a system during the disk i/o operations using PIO. Yes, I have seen disks
spin mindlessly due to the "intensive" short burts of disk io activities and 
the
problem went away by switching to DMA.






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 Amancio Hasty
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