From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 18 16:15:50 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E86816A41F for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:15:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from WillS@housing.ufl.edu) Received: from smtp.housing.ufl.edu (smtp1.housing.ufl.edu [128.227.47.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F9143D46 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:15:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from WillS@housing.ufl.edu) Received: (qmail 4604 invoked by uid 98); 18 Oct 2005 16:15:48 -0000 Received: from 128.227.47.18 by smtp2.housing.ufl.edu (envelope-from , uid 82) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.83/705. spamassassin: 3.0.2. Clear:RC:1(128.227.47.18):. Processed in 0.065486 secs); 18 Oct 2005 16:15:48 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: WillS@housing.ufl.edu via smtp2.housing.ufl.edu X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.25 (Clear:RC:1(128.227.47.18):. Processed in 0.065486 secs) Received: from bragi.housing.ufl.edu (128.227.47.18) by smtp.housing.ufl.edu with SMTP; 18 Oct 2005 16:15:48 -0000 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6556.0 Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:15:46 -0400 Message-ID: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED807EAFA38@bragi.housing.ufl.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Disk 100% busy Thread-Index: AcXT/hjw8uyxtKo7T6WmhDCWAwPhewAAKczA From: "Will Saxon" To: "Mike Jakubik" Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Ronald Klop Subject: RE: Disk 100% busy X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:15:50 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Jakubik [mailto:mikej@rogers.com]=20 > Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 5:21 PM > To: Will Saxon > Cc: Ronald Klop; stable@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Disk 100% busy >=20 >=20 > On Sun, October 16, 2005 1:53 pm, Will Saxon wrote: >=20 > > I completely forgot that I had the partition mounted=20 > 'sync'. That might > > explain things a bit, huh. >=20 >=20 > Do NOT mount the partition async, you are asking for=20 > filesystem corruption. I was not planning to. I was thinking though that without=20 softupdates and with sync, the disk would stay a lot busier.=20 Since I have enabled softupdates, the disk is not nearly as busy.=20 I may lose some mail if the machines panics for some reason, but=20 I think that is not likely.=20 >=20 > > I am using qmail - the author indicates that softupdates is not > > recommended. However, I am going to give it a shot and see=20 > if I start > > losing mail as he suggests may happen. >=20 > Do yourself a big favor, and switch from this historic piece=20 > of software > to something like Postfix. BSD has been around since the 70s, any suggestions for something=20 more modern? Thanks for the response.=20 -Will