From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 30 17:41:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FFB215386; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 17:41:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA78648; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 17:41:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 17:41:26 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199912310141.RAA78648@apollo.backplane.com> To: Tom Cc: Peter Wemm , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and debug.max_softdeps References: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : That is interesting. So I guess the conclusion to this is, softupdates :is useful for bursty IO, but not sustained because it can get far behind :until it eventually reaches the point where the machine reboots silently. :I guess the delay until reboot is dependent on the size of max_softdeps. :If it is big, it takes a while. : : I still think that the default value of max_softdeps might be too big :for the kernel memory space. Well it sure isn't supposed to reboot silently! No panic message at all? No printf? Hopefully Kirk is around to help track down the problem but if not I'll take a crack at it after newyears if you create a PR for it and assign it to me. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message