On Saturday, 18 December 1999 at 20:16:53 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :I've just upgraded to -CURRENT as of yesterday, and I'm noticing a
> :number of occasions where all activity ceases for a second or two at a
> :time; it seems to be related to IDE disk activity with the new ATA
> :driver, but I don't have much evidence. I'm running a SiS 5591
> :chipset. Has anybody else seen something like this?
> :
> :Greg
>
> It's possible that the blockages you are seeing are due to the ATA
> driver, but it's also possible that they are due to a bug in the
> buffer cache flushing code which the following patch fixes. So try
> the patch and see if that fixes your problem. If it doesn't then
> we can at least rule it out as being the cause of the problem you
> are seeing.
Thanks. I'll do that Real Soon Now. BTW, it looks as if the disk
activity was on SCSI disks, so the ATA driver is probably a red
herring.
> (This patch is currently slated for commit on Sunday).
It *is* Sunday :-)
Greg
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