From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 08:51:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AEC816A4CE for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:51:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from rdsnet.ro (smtp.rdsnet.ro [62.231.74.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BD9C43FE0 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:51:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 32615 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2003 16:45:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (81.196.25.19) by mail.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 26 Nov 2003 16:45:02 -0000 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:45:39 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20031126184539.6c995ffa.itetcu@apropo.ro> In-Reply-To: <444qwrkyck.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <20031125134915.2514dd57.itetcu@apropo.ro> <444qwrkyck.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org Subject: Re: sync delay and consitency X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:51:46 -0000 On 26 Nov 2003 09:18:03 -0500 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Ion-Mihai Tetcu writes: > > > I have a machine that randomly crashes. I wonder if lowering > > > > Variable Default Description > > kern.filedelay 30 time to delay syncing files > > kern.dirdelay 29 time to delay syncing directories > > kern.metadelay 28 time to delay syncing metadata > > > > would help having a more up-to-date fs (using soft-updates). > > It might. This may depend on *why* it's crashing, so I'd try > attacking that problem first. Whish I knew. It's freezes (eg. no keyboard or mouse, replies to ping, but no new shh sesions, etc.) It is problaly something software, as I've changed almost everything on the hardware side. No drop to debugger, nothing in logs. (I suspect *something* in the interupt code, I'll try on 5.2when I'l have time). > > > Also is there a reason for the 30-29-28 (the 1 differece between) > > sequence ? > > I'd speculate that it's to keep the three cycles from synchronizing > with each other (which they would tend to do if they were repeating > with the same period). -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user