Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 11:20:46 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Sounds of Soft Updates Message-ID: <19981020112046.G433@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19981019124108.33310@right.PCS>; from Jonathan Lemon on Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 12:41:08PM -0500 References: <199810180307.UAA09256@dingo.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810191008390.585-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> <19981019124108.33310@right.PCS>
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On Monday, 19 October 1998 at 12:41:08 -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > 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. :-) And I thought he was referring to mine. I didn't know that Jordan had Burmese. But then, mine don't have bells. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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