Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 01:45:12 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net>, Brian Feldman <brianfeldman@hotmail.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SoftUpdates stable?? Message-ID: <199805160045.BAA14577@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 May 1998 01:24:28 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95.980515012105.12356A-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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I turned off softupdates on everything and experienced the same
lockup ! I've now re-built my kernel & lkms from scratch and am
running with no softupdates. If the machine survives the night, I'll
turn on softupdates (& no async FSs) and see how things go :-/
> 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
>
>
>
> On Fri, 15 May 1998, Brian Somers wrote:
>
> > Same problems here - I have /tmp async and not soft-updated. The
> > rest is soft-updated and not async. The locks under X are quick &
> > bad (about 10-15 minutes after starting X) - not even BREAK on a
> > serial console gets a look-in.
[.....]
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