From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 7 2:53: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.ms-agentur.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E9E537B406 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 02:53:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.ms-agentur.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id MAA14470; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:02:00 +0200 Message-ID: <3B9898FB.1030401@i-clue.de> Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 11:52:59 +0200 From: Christoph Sold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010905 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Evren Yurtesen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates on procfs and swap References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Evren Yurtesen wrote: >does softupdates have any effect on procfs and swap? > No, and no. procfs exists in memory only, thus delaying writes slows things down. swap isn't a file system at all, thus softupdates won't do anything on it. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message