From owner-freebsd-fs Mon May 21 8:51: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from web10304.mail.yahoo.com (web10304.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA1F137B42C for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 08:50:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz) Message-ID: <20010521155057.71975.qmail@web10304.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [128.165.156.80] by web10304.mail.yahoo.com; Mon, 21 May 2001 08:50:57 PDT Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 08:50:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Graham Guttocks Subject: softupdates performance question To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greetings, I just finished installing 4.3-RELEASE on my IBM Thinkpad whose partitions look like this: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s2a 8711619 1720740 6293950 21% / procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc During installation, I chose "softupdates" for my / partition. It now seems as if file manipulation operations are slower than they should be. Is this my imagination, or has softupdates slowed things down? Should I disable softupdates with tunefs? Regards, Graham __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message