From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 15 05:34:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA13439 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 15 May 1998 05:34:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA13416 for ; Fri, 15 May 1998 05:34:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) id OAA17334; Fri, 15 May 1998 14:26:14 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199805151226.OAA17334@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: SoftUpdates stable?? In-Reply-To: from Julian Elischer at "May 15, 98 01:24:28 am" To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 14:26:14 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > try making tmp softupdates rather than sync > (it's better because softupdates can decide that a deleted file never > nneds to be written (it cancels the write) > whereas async will write the block anyhow for no reason.) > > I will admit that my test machine has not been running X11 > I will correct that oversight tomorrow Can you maybe try a "make release" also? If you haven't yet. On my SMP machine I can do a "make world" with no problems, but both the "make release"s that I have tried failed with a kernel panic. Not sure if it is a SMP problem or not. I haven't tried it on a UP machine. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message