From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 19 10:42:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA27945 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:42:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [207.170.17.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA27934 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:42:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA08213; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:41:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id MAA08101; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:41:08 -0500 Message-ID: <19981019124108.33310@right.PCS> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:41:08 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: Mike Smith , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Sounds of Soft Updates References: <199810180307.UAA09256@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: ; from Jason C. Wells on Oct 10, 1998 at 10:09:33AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Oct 10, 1998 at 10:09:33AM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > >If you don't know what I'm talking about, and you don't have a system > >running it, then I guess I should explain that Soft Updates pushes > >pending writes out to disk once a second. If the system's not very > >busy, you get a little burst of activity every second; on the old > >Barracuda I'm using here it sounds a bit like a Burmese with a bell > >working on a hairball. > > I have "soft updates" and I did not even know it. > > Thanks for the brilliant technical article on how to determine the > configuration of one's system. :) Sounds like Mike's been hanging around with Jordan's cats again. :-) -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message