On 10:08, Sun 13 Feb 05, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Yes, Jeff reported this effect on leaf too.
>
> It's due to the specfs bypass. The device inodes in /dev are not being
> updated by reads and writes. I have a tentitive patch set.. more a
> hack then a fix, and I haven't tested it with buildworld yet. It
> records the time in the device read and write and then modifies the
> returned attribute based on the additional information.
>
> -Matt
> Matthew Dillon
> <dillon@backplane.com>
I tested it with buildkernel and it does seem to fix idle time problem.
Sarunas