Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:15:46 -0400 From: "Will Saxon" <WillS@housing.ufl.edu> To: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> Subject: RE: Disk 100% busy Message-ID: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED807EAFA38@bragi.housing.ufl.edu>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Jakubik [mailto:mikej@rogers.com] > Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 5:21 PM > To: Will Saxon > Cc: Ronald Klop; stable@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Disk 100% busy > > > On Sun, October 16, 2005 1:53 pm, Will Saxon wrote: > > > I completely forgot that I had the partition mounted > 'sync'. That might > > explain things a bit, huh. > > > Do NOT mount the partition async, you are asking for > filesystem corruption. I was not planning to. I was thinking though that without softupdates and with sync, the disk would stay a lot busier. Since I have enabled softupdates, the disk is not nearly as busy. I may lose some mail if the machines panics for some reason, but I think that is not likely. > > > I am using qmail - the author indicates that softupdates is not > > recommended. However, I am going to give it a shot and see > if I start > > losing mail as he suggests may happen. > > Do yourself a big favor, and switch from this historic piece > of software > to something like Postfix. BSD has been around since the 70s, any suggestions for something more modern? Thanks for the response. -Will
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED807EAFA38>