On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 01:34:40AM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > >I tried both cam and bio -- no difference. It is not that it's >slow -- I was prepared for that, it is that it totally hangs -- >forever. > >I narrowed it down to softupdates. If I disable the softupdates on >the cartridge's filesystem copying finishes successfully. Somehow >the `cp' process takes 150% of the CPU time (purely single CPU system), >but that's a different story, I guess.
The drive is polling-capable only. So it makes no difference with the cam/bio configuration. And it explains your performance result. > >I hope, this sad experience of mine will help further improve >softupdates. Thanks. -- nso...@teaser.fr / nso...@freebsd.org FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
