Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:13:31 +0100 From: Michel TALON <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES Message-ID: <19991221181331.B84264@lpthe.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912210857250.5973-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu on Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 09:00:37AM -0800 References: <385EFAEF.5F286795@home.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912210857250.5973-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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> Softupdates can cause some interesting deadlocks when a disk fills up. > Since /tmp is very susceptable to filling, you don't want softupdates set > on the /tmp volume either (which is generally /). > Here on my desktop i have /tmp mounted with softupdates. /dev/da0s1e on /tmp (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 97 async 14767) I frequently fill up /tmp, for example printing big acroread files, and i have never seen any deadlock since more than 1 year. On my laptop, to avoid any such problem i have installed everything flat under /, so i have 1 Gig free. In this setup softupdates is a big win. -- Michel TALON To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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