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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:16:43 -0800
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
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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.
>
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>

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.