From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 18 3:39:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D414037B403 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 03:39:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 12591 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Jun 2001 10:37:56 -0000 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:37:56 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Article Network performance by OS Message-ID: <20010618133756.H1713@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010618123453.B89983@mail.webmonster.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010618123453.B89983@mail.webmonster.de>; from karsten@rohrbach.de on Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:34:53PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- If I were you, who would be reading this sentence? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message