From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 28 05:10:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA29121 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 05:10:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (geos01.oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com [134.32.44.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA29101; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 05:10:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smoergrd@oslo.sl.slb.com) Received: from sunw110.oslo.Geco-Prakla.slb.com (sunw110 [192.23.231.54]) by oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA03557 ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:08:22 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by sunw110.oslo.Geco-Prakla.slb.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA28294; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:08:20 +0200 To: Bruce Evans Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG, kong@kong.spb.ru, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange idle times References: <199807281129.VAA32437@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Organization: Schlumberger Geco-Prakla X-Disclaimer: I speak only for myself. From: smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Date: 28 Jul 1998 14:08:19 +0200 In-Reply-To: Bruce Evans's message of Tue, 28 Jul 1998 21:29:50 +1000 Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce Evans writes: > Strange idle times used to be caused by mounting with -noatime. I fixed > this a few weeks ago by ignoring -noatime for special files. Yesterday > I enabled a better optimization for all timestamps on special files. > Perhaps something in you configuration breaks this optimization. I don't have any file systems mounted -noatime (there's not much point since they're all running soft updates). What are the other potential culprits? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message