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SubjectRe: 2.0.30 serial.c, ppp.c and pppd-2.2 questions
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> I just showed my son how an e2fsck on a large SCSI disk really
> stopped all other activity.

Thats not normally scheduling. The kernel doesnt enforce a dirty page
quota per device so a device can flood all free memory with dirty buffers
very fast. Its _horrible_ on floppy disks.

Alan


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