From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 5 16:24: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-1.sjc.telocity.net (mail-1.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFDFD37B502 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 16:23:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoso (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-1.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA20781; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 16:21:14 -0700 (PDT) From: "Otter" To: "Daniel Domengeaux" , Subject: RE: softupdates (was Re: df -k) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 19:26:43 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <03d601c02f1c$2fa1da60$cd2710d1@comspace.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG }-----Original Message----- }From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Daniel }Domengeaux }Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 6:32 PM }To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }Subject: OT: softupdates (was Re: df -k) } } }> BUT... keeping in mind that the best thing about Unix-like OSes is }> their flexibility, the free space can be changed. man }tunefs for your }> options, but remember that if you want more space, you'll get less }> speed. You want more speed from tunefs? You get less space. }> Personally, I'd recommend leaving it alone. Softupdates }gives enough }> of a performance boost without eating up disk space... just my two }> cents. }> -Otter } }i enabled softupdates a few days ago and have noticed a }slight increase in }performance but am just curious to know if anyone has any benchmarks }actually showing the difference between having them enabled and not. } }-daniel } Daniel, Follow the link listed in /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates or maybe find someone with docs from before softupdates were incorporated into a base install. I remember a lengthy, informative README back when it was in the contrib section. -Otter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message