Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 22:34:04 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and debug.max_softdeps Message-ID: <199912310634.WAA00620@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Dec 1999 17:02:33 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9912301650520.9644-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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> 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 mentioned this a while back in the context of suspended I/O (in this case, a RAID array busy dealing with a failed disk). There wasn't much interest in dealing with it evinced at that point. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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