From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Nov 27 22:30: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02AC437B417 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:29:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAS6T8S54155; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:59:09 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:59:08 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Harry Putnam Subject: RE: Extreme filesystem sloth Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 28-Nov-2001 Harry Putnam wrote: > 4.3-STABLE on a Toshiba 4005 (Pentium II 233mhz) > > Let me preface these remarks with a comment to set the tone. > This is not an attempt at starting a religous war a la > linux vs FreeBSD. > > I suspect what I see is the result of poor or misguided configs on my > part but have no clue what things to look at. Turn softupdates on. (man tunefs) Possibly also turn write caching on if it is off. (man ata) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message