Re: Kernel Panic when writing to disk [update]
Re: Kernel Panic when writing to disk [update]
- Subject: Re: Kernel Panic when writing to disk [update]
- From: Markus Hitter <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:08:29 +0200
Congrats for discovering the bug.
Am 21.06.2004 um 10:44 schrieb Matthieu Kopp:
Another thread is triggered by a timer and is checking the amount of
free disk space every second ...
It's never a good idea to access the disk in regular intervals,
IMHO[1]. This will avoid stopping the disk when it's otherwise unused.
Annoying, especially on i/PowerBooks.
From what you told us about your goals, it's fully sufficient to check
the disk's free space at the beginning of each write operation.
my $0.02
Markus
[1] Printer Utility serves as a poor example here, it checks for
incoming print jobs each second. Drives me nuts if this app is running
somewhere in the background (e.g. due to a failed print operation) and
the iBook won't go to sleep for no visible reason.
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Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter
http://www.jump-ing.de/
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