On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 06:32:28PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote: > Freddie Cash wrote: > > > The laptop has an ATI IXP chipset, which means the HD is detected and run > > as a generic UDMA33 device. The kernel is using the 4BSD scheduler with > > PREEMPTION enabled, all debugging hints disabled, and all the mpsafe > > sysctls enabled. > > Hmm.. maybe the disk (interface) is just too slow to trigger this when > running in UDMA33 (and a slow notebook disk).. I have observed it on a > SATA Seagate setup (on ICH6 chipset). Just a wild guess.
I'd expect a slow disk to make worse the problem of blocking waiting for disk I/O. Kris
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