From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 14 15:38:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71DE314C92 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 15:38:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA29148; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 15:36:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199906142236.PAA29148@implode.root.com> To: Khetan Gajjar Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp.cdrom.com using soft-updates? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 15 Jun 1999 00:34:53 +0200." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 15:36:38 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >yn Mon, 14 Jun 1999, David Greenman wrote: > >> I was using it on /tmp, but had some periodic soft-updates related crashes. >>I believe the cause of those has been fixed, but I'm not adventuresome enough >>to turn it back on right now to find out. > >Would softupdates make a big difference in an environment where >it's primarily reading, and not writing data ? No, it really only helps situations where there are a lot of file/directory creates and deletes. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message