From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 28 14:43: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6320A37B417 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:43:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15831; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:42:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:42:49 -0700 From: "Chad R. Larson" To: Harry Putnam Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extreme filesystem sloth Message-ID: <20011128154249.A15781@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from reader@newsguy.com on Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:52:22PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:52:22PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > "Daniel O'Connor" writes: >> Turn softupdates on. >> (man tunefs) >> >> Possibly also turn write caching on if it is off. >> (man ata) > > OK, thanks Daniel. Look like good clues. I'm eager to try them out. > Do you think these things will improve things quite noticably? Almost scary fast for some things. Like, after turning softupdates on things like "chown -R" happen so fast you're not sure it did anything. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message