From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Nov 27 23: 0:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from newsguy.com (smtp.newsguy.com [209.155.56.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A774937B41A for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:00:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from reader.local.lan (adsl-66.51.210.228.dslextreme.com [66.51.210.228]) by newsguy.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA66628 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:00:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAS70bu02008; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:00:37 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.local.lan: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extreme filesystem sloth References: From: Harry Putnam In-Reply-To: ("Daniel O'Connor"'s message of "Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:59:08 +1030 (CST)") Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:52:22 -0800 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 25 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 "Daniel O'Connor" writes: > 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) OK, thanks Daniel. Look like good clues. I'm eager to try them out. Do you think these things will improve things quite noticably? I can't test it just now as I'm rsyncing some 600mb of mail and news across from my desktop. (Leaving town in the morning) and that will take a while. But looking at the man pages its hard to get an idea how much of improvement this might make. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message