From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 10 19:11:36 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21815 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:11:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA21809 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:11:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id VAA26866; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:07:21 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19990110210721.A24234@futuresouth.com> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:07:21 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Julian Elischer , Frank Nobis Cc: Kenneth Wayne Culver , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Julian Elischer on Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 11:00:59AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 11:00:59AM -0800, Julian Elischer woke me up to tell me: > I hope you have it on your /usr/obj partition, because that's where it > would be used and make a difference. It only affects writes. Does softupdates give any gain over async? I have /usr/src and /usr/obj both mounted async, noatime, and it does seem to be rather nicely fast over default mountops. --- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Matthew Fuller http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd | * fullermd@futuresouth.com fullermd@over-yonder.net * | UNIX Systems Administrator Specializing in FreeBSD | * FutureSouth Communications ISPHelp ISP Consulting * | "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, | * because I haven't figured out how to light the * | middle yet" | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message