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From: kcr%rushforth@Sun.COM (Kevin Rushforth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: UNWANTED SuperSpool Disk Activity
Keywords: ss superspool disk
Message-ID: <115253@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 13 Jul 89 04:19:55 GMT
References: <7291@ecsvax.UUCP>
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Reply-To: kcr@sun.UUCP (Kevin Rushforth)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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In article <7291@ecsvax.UUCP> khj@ecsvax.UUCP (Kenneth H. Jacker) writes:
>About every 13 seconds, there is disk activity (with no other
>applications/DAs running).  The first lasts about 1/4 of a
>second, and another about a second. The longer follows the
>first by about 2-3 seconds.

Do you have RAM cache turned on?  I run System 6.0.2 on a MAC+ with
SuperSpool 5.0 installed and several INIT/CDEVs as well, and I have not
noticed the problem that you are experiencing (I run with a 96K RAM
cache).

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Sun Microsystems                     |  then commander, why keep score?"
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