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From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil+venti continuous disk activity
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:16:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60603230916x3827ee2cxf67847a18d25ad41@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22d83814a09393e0176392b28aa13ff1@9netics.com>

On 3/23/06, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
> this is my first attempt at installing plan9 with fossil+venti fs.
> after rebooting, i noticed continuous disk activity.  is this normal?
>
> for comparison, i reinstalled with just fossil, and don't see this
> behavior.
>
>
>

Does your disk controller support DMA?  I've found that's a huge help
when dealing with venti.  My last experience with it was so much
better when I turned DMA on.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-23 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-23 17:08 Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-23 17:10 ` Russ Cox
2006-03-23 17:18   ` veritosproject
2006-03-23 17:20     ` Russ Cox
2006-03-23 17:22       ` veritosproject
2006-03-23 17:29         ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-23 17:29         ` Gabriel Diaz
2006-03-23 17:30         ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-03-23 17:31         ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-23 17:36           ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-03-23 17:43             ` Gabriel Diaz
2006-03-23 18:12               ` veritosproject
2006-03-23 18:51                 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-23 17:37           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-23 17:41             ` Gabriel Diaz
2006-03-23 17:38           ` Russ Cox
2006-03-23 17:16 ` David Leimbach [this message]

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