Re: swiN: clock sio process taking 75% CPU

2006-07-21 Thread Gareth McCaughan
I wrote: About 6 minutes after booting (on two occasions; I don't guarantee that this doesn't vary), a process that appears in the output of ps as [swi4: clock sio] begins to use about 3/4 of the machine's CPU. I think it does so more or less instantaneously. It continues to do so

Re: swiN: clock sio process taking 75% CPU

2006-07-17 Thread Gareth McCaughan
I wrote: About 6 minutes after booting (on two occasions; I don't guarantee that this doesn't vary), a process that appears in the output of ps as [swi4: clock sio] begins to use about 3/4 of the machine's CPU. I think it does so more or less instantaneously. It continues to do so

swiN: clock sio process taking 75% CPU

2006-07-13 Thread Gareth McCaughan
, but I'll check the web archives and should therefore see any responses that go only to the list(s). Thanks in advance! -- Gareth McCaughan ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

DVD writer support in -STABLE?

2002-09-13 Thread Gareth McCaughan
I'm thinking about getting a DVD writer as a backup device for use with my -STABLE system. It's not clear to me what level of support there is for this in -STABLE. 1. If I just want to treat a DVD as an unusually large CD, will that just work? I mean, can I build a 4GB ISO9660 filesystem