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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: Disktab and SCSI Performance.
From:       Bruce Evans <bde () zeta ! org ! au>
Date:       1996-05-31 16:39:59
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>Rotdelay and/or artificially increased interleave can be useful for
>fast disks, too. It can be used to prevent a fast drive on a non-dma
>controller from starving the CPU to the exclusion of user programs.
>Sometimes slowing disk I/O can be an advantage. From experience :-)

Can it be used to prevent fast ID drives from starving the CPU to the
exclusion of kernel code? :-)

Bruce

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