From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 17 08:28:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA22456 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 08:28:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA22399 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 08:28:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com) Received: (from gibbs@localhost) by narnia.plutotech.com (8.9.1/8.7.3) id JAA11928; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 09:20:37 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 09:20:37 -0600 (MDT) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Message-Id: <199810171520.JAA11928@narnia.plutotech.com> To: Mike Smith cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and sync Newsgroups: pluto.freebsd.hackers In-Reply-To: <199810170729.AAA01257@dingo.cdrom.com> User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-971204 (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.0-BETA (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199810170729.AAA01257@dingo.cdrom.com> you wrote: > 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? A 'sync' doesn't force all pending writes to be flushed? I can't believe that this is true. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message