Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:37:56 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Article Network performance by OS Message-ID: <20010618133756.H1713@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20010618123453.B89983@mail.webmonster.de>; from karsten@rohrbach.de on Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:34:53PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106162345400.2056-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> <xzpithv8xn8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010618123453.B89983@mail.webmonster.de>
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On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:34:53PM +0200, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav(des@ofug.org)@2001.06.17 07:48:27 +0000:
> >
> > Second, we tried turning write caching on ATA drives off by default,
> > and boy were you (the user community) pissed. Yes, turning wc off
> > shows you just how crappy those non-tagged-queueing 4000 RPM ATA
> > drives you picked up at Fry's for some pocket change are. So we
> > turned it back on. If you're not happy with that, put 'hw.ata.wc="0"'
> > in your /boot/loader.conf and they'll be off after the next reboot.
> > Or get real disks.
>
> that's one for the handbook, eh? imagine:
>
> Q: i got problem {...}, it seems to depend on (ATA|IDE|disk|drive|...)
> A: get real hardware, you're running a production system, aren't you?
>
> it would be a nice thing[tm] to have such stuff in the docs.
Can we put your e-mail address below, to direct there all the feedback
from home users with IDE drives? :P
G'luck,
Peter
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