From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 24 10:21: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F35CF37B405 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:21:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 15P5rj-000PVv-00; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:21:03 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f6OHL2u71834; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:21:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:21:01 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: John Merryweather Cooper Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about wc on for NON-critical workstation (no flamebait) Message-ID: <20010724182101.A71800@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010724180907.A71575@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010724101241.K1487@johncoop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010724101241.K1487@johncoop>; from jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:12:41AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:12:41AM -0700, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: | On 2001.07.24 10:09 j mckitrick wrote: | > | > For day to day use (programming, netscape, email, etc) will wc on show | > any | > performance improvement? | > | > jcm | > -- | > o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | > | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jonathon McKitrick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | > | "I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself." | | > o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | > | > | > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message | > | | Try it . . . the answer is yes . . . and like everything else | in life (especially entities that are "built for speed"), it's | a calculated risk. I figure I have a battery pack anyway for the laptop, but I wondered if such a light load would benefit from write-caching anyway, with softupdates running as well. jcm -- o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jonathon McKitrick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | "I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself." | o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message