From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 21 9:13:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE5381534E for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:13:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.2) with ESMTP id SAA77888 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:13:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.41]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.1a/jtpda-5.3.1) with ESMTP id SAA14843 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:13:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from (talon@localhost) by niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id SAA84300 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:13:31 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:13:31 +0100 From: Michel TALON To: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES Message-ID: <19991221181331.B84264@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Stable References: <385EFAEF.5F286795@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu on Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 09:00:37AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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