while this is happening, what does 'iostat 1' and 'vmstat 1' tell you?
On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
> About a week ago, I've posted a message here and didn't got positive replies.
>
> The problem is:
>
> when I use soft-updates on IDE disks (disk on primary master, disk on
> secondary master, CD on primary slave), any active disk-using program
> (starting Netscape, starting EXMH) causes all other programs literally to stop
> for several seconds (well, 20-30 seconds is quite often!). Turning
> soft-updates off causes this nastiness to disappear, but also slows down
> disk-active processess.
>
> Alex.
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