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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider)
Subject: Re: XFree1-2 + 386BSD performance
Message-ID: <1993May12.202203.27917@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
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References: <1993May12.025731.29769@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <1993May12.144311.14744@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <1993May12.182849.29379@cm.cf.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 20:22:03 GMT
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In article <1993May12.182849.29379@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) writes:

>When doing compiles that access disk a lot my system hangs until the
>disk activity stops. I think what's happening is that disk interrupts are
>crowding out everything else. Is there some way of preventing this, it
>would make it a lot easier to run background compiles. At the moment
>it's like running a single tasking system because when the disk is being
>accessed nothing else happens.
>
>Incidentally, my drive is an IDE, I get the feeling that this doesn't
>happen with SCSI which is why not everyone sees it.

	Hrm.  I was running a no-name 486/50DX with a 12ms Maxtor IDE
	drive, and a 14ms Quantum SCSI disk.  Most of the builds were
	running on the IDE drive.

	However, it might be worth pointing out that I was running X386mono,
	since the 8514 isn't quite supported yet....

	Toodlepip!
	Marc 'em.
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