From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 13 18:53:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4784153DF for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:53:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA13576 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 03:53:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 03:53:37 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199912140253.DAA13576@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: softupdates... the sequel Organization: Administration TU Clausthal Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 It's out of date.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 -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message