From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 9 2:36:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.phys.univ.kiev.ua (hq.ups.kiev.ua [193.125.78.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD729155D8 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 02:36:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from usov@hq.ups.kiev.ua) Received: from hq.ups.kiev.ua (class12.phys.univ.kiev.ua [194.44.151.88]) by mail.phys.univ.kiev.ua (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA16080; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 12:46:55 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <384F922C.D7176A91@hq.ups.kiev.ua> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 13:27:40 +0200 From: Usov Alexander X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates use References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Hey all, > I just read the readme on softupdates. I'd like to know if they are worth > using on a single user workstation, or do they really just benefit larger > servers? It looks like they affect all disk operations to some degree. They affect all disk operations, but few of them became slower. Althought total FS perfomace increases (even for single-user workstation). But there is a little thing you shoul know: during aressive HDD work it`s almost impossible to work (unless you have SCSI). > Also, to make sure i have it right, i enable softupdates in the kernel, > then run tunefs -n on the target filesystem. That's it, right? Then just > sit back and watch the fun begin? :-) You have to link two files from /sys/contrib/softupdates (take a look at README) and rebuild the kernel. Then reboot and type mount to see the difference. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message