From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 10 17:29:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11674 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:29:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11667 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:29:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA26817; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:20:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from s204m82.isp.whistle.com(207.76.204.82) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdj26804; Mon Jan 11 01:20:17 1999 Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 16:20:17 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer X-Sender: julian@s204m82.isp.whistle.com To: Frank Nobis cc: Kenneth Wayne Culver , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG also the slower the drive being written to the more softupdates helps :-) it makes best sence to make /usr/obj an slow drive with softupates on it :-) On 11 Jan 1999, Frank Nobis wrote: > >>>>> "Julian" == Julian Elischer writes: > > Julian> I hope you have it on your /usr/obj partition, because > Julian> that's where it would be used and make a difference. It > Julian> only affects writes. > > At the moment it is all on /usr > > root@trinity:ttyp0# df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 119055 24065 85466 22% / > /dev/da0s1f 7845429 1108339 6109456 15% /usr > /dev/da0s1e 99183 7102 84147 8% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > /dev/da1s1h 2032623 1 1870013 0% /export2 > /dev/da3s1h 1951407 150384 1644911 8% /export4 > /dev/da4s1h 4266912 3409329 857583 80% /export5 > gatekeeper:/home 992751 826798 86533 91% /home > gatekeeper:/var/mail 496367 265825 190833 58% /var/mail > /dev/da2s2h 2051070 2 2051068 0% /export > root@trinity:ttyp0# mount > /dev/da0s1a on / (local, writes: sync 31 async 25205) > /dev/da0s1f on /usr (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 1087 async 190831) > /dev/da0s1e on /var (local, writes: sync 66227 async 108266) > procfs on /proc (local) > /dev/da1s1h on /export2 (NFS exported, local, writes: sync 116 async 26865) > /dev/da3s1h on /export4 (NFS exported, local, writes: sync 2 async 1569) > /dev/da4s1h on /export5 (NFS exported, local, soft-updates, writes: sync 477 async 123440) > > > I will do some tests on the slowe drive mounted on /export5 and > /usr/obj linked /export5 > > > Dec 31 15:11:31 trinity /kernel: da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > Dec 31 15:11:32 trinity /kernel: da0: 40.0MB/s transfers (20.0MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled > Dec 31 15:11:32 trinity /kernel: da0: 8683MB (17783240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C) > > da0 is at ahc0. The other drives are on ahc1. > > Dec 31 15:11:31 trinity /kernel: ahc0: rev 0x00 int a irq 19 on pci0.6.0 > Dec 31 15:11:31 trinity /kernel: ahc0: aic7890/91 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs > Dec 31 15:11:31 trinity /kernel: ahc1: rev 0x03 inta irq 16 on pci0.12.0 > Dec 31 15:11:31 trinity /kernel: ahc1: aic7870 Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs > > > -- > Frank Nobis Email: PGP AVAILABLE > Landgrafenstr. 130 dg3dcn http://www.radio-do.de/~fn/ > 44139 Dortmund Powered by SMP FreeBSD > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message