Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 03:53:37 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: softupdates... the sequel Message-ID: <199912140253.DAA13576@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Greg Lehey wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> On Saturday, 11 December 1999 at 2:41:56 -0500, Agent Drek wrote:
> > I would like to know if I should run this code on a production
> > machine. I've been told that this message is probably just out of
> > date but ...
>
> It's out of date. However, we have seen some strange crashes with
> soft updates, and I'm not convinced that they're not due to soft
> updates. Having said that, I'm writing this message on my laptop with
> soft updates enabled.
Just another data point: Our university's web proxy is a
FreeBSD 3-stable box with soft-updates enabled. It has to
stand a pretty good load, the current uptime is 53 days.
It is only shut down to plug in another disk or to upgrade
the OS. (It is a Pentium-II-450, 512 Mbyte RAM (ECC),
30 Gbyte HD space.)
I have to confess that, in the beginning, we had stability
problems, but that was because the machine ran out of MBUFs.
Watching "netstat -m" and increasing NMBCLUSTERS fixed the
problem, and the box is running happily ever since. And it
is bloody fast, thanks to soft-updates.
Regards
Oliver
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