From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 13 15:16:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01824 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 15:16:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.dcfinc.com (freebie.dcfinc.com [138.113.2.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01817 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 22:16:09 GMT (envelope-from chad@freebie.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freebie.dcfinc.com (8.8.7/8.8.3a) id PAA04585; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 15:07:26 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199804132207.PAA04585@freebie.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: MFS in -stable? To: tweten@frihet.com Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 15:07:26 -0700 (MST) Cc: pst@juniper.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199804120107.SAA11809@ns.frihet.com> from "David E. Tweten" at "Apr 11, 98 06:07:14 pm" Reply-to: chad@dcfinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > It _is_ a bit of a hack. I don't believe anybody has done anything > significant to it since the current encarnation arrived as part of 4.4 > BSD, which means it still runs at half the speed it could, worries > about cylinder groups, and pays no attention to locality of reference > in virtual memory. Still, half memory speed is a _lot_ faster than > any disk, and it has always been rock reliable for me. But if you left the memory available for Kernel buffers, wouldn't you get the performance without the management headaches? -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? 602-953-1392 chad@dcfinc.com chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message