My 3B1 FIXDISK 2.0 experience (so far, LONG)

[Augustine Cano]

In article <1990Oct10.111528.13746 at uhura.neoucom.EDU> wtm at uhura.neoucom.EDU (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>One thing I should add is that my system has a voice power board in
>the middle slot of the backplane.  I've noticed that if I run the
>voice manager daemon that my average uucp transfers drop from about 
>1400 char/sec to around 1200 char/sec (3.51).  The behavior is quite
>repeatable by running setvm on, transferring a file, setvm off,
>transferring a file then compare the results.  It is a bit puzzling,
>as the voice manager should be spending most of its time sleeping,
>and only needs to wake up in reponse to ring or off-hook event. The
>ps command corroborates this, suggesting that voicemgr is not
>executing a polling loop as indicated by the execution time.

I remember reading in the voice power docs a categorical warning *NOT*
to run the voice manager daemon unless you intend to run the answering
machine.  It seems that they knew about the performance problems.

>The decrease in uucp performance I noticed the FIXDISK kernel was
>about the same amount.  If I get a chance, I'll switch back to the
>3.51m kernel without the voice power board to see if that makes a
>difference.

I'd bet the culprit is setvm.

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