From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 17 03:09:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA22645 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 03:09:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from home.bhl (1Cust222.tnt1.lafayette.in.da.uu.net [208.254.19.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA22640 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 03:09:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bhlewis@gte.net) Received: from ylana.home.bhl (bhlewis@localhost.home.bhl [127.0.0.1]) by home.bhl (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA20562; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 05:08:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bhlewis@ylana.home.bhl) Message-Id: <199810171008.FAA20562@home.bhl> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Smith cc: Warner Losh , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and sync In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:29:06 MST." <199810170729.AAA01257@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 05:08:29 -0500 From: Benjamin Lewis Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > If I remove a huge directory with on a volume that has soft > > updates enabled, then my df avail stat doesn't change (although the > > rm happens very very fast). So, I type sync, and there isn't much > > disk activity and the df stat is still the same. So I wait a while, > > no disk activity. After 5 minutes I unmount and remount the volume. > > The unmout causes a huge amount of traffic to the disk. On remount > > the missing space reappears. > It's "normal", but it shouldn't take minutes; the buckets are meant to > cycle around every 30 seconds or so. You haven't tweaked the update > timer by any chance, have you? I think the same sort of thing was happening to me yesterday. I also managed to panic the machine by forcing a write to a read-only file (as root) and since I had just done a make aout-to-elf, fsck was very unhappy after the reboot. I've since disabled softupdates on my /usr partition (they were never enabled on /), and everything's fine (if a lot slower). -Ben -- Benjamin Lewis bhlewis@gte.net -or- bhlewis@purdue.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message