From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 19 18:51:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA21008 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:51:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA20993 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:51:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA10620; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 11:20:55 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA00765; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 11:20:46 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981020112046.G433@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 11:20:46 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jonathan Lemon , "Jason C. Wells" Cc: Mike Smith , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Sounds of Soft Updates References: <199810180307.UAA09256@dingo.cdrom.com> <19981019124108.33310@right.PCS> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19981019124108.33310@right.PCS>; from Jonathan Lemon on Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 12:41:08PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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