From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 15 18:00:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA08903 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 15 May 1998 18:00:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA08882 for ; Fri, 15 May 1998 18:00:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA14577; Sat, 16 May 1998 01:45:14 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199805160045.BAA14577@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Julian Elischer cc: Brian Somers , Open Systems Networking , Brian Feldman , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SoftUpdates stable?? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 15 May 1998 01:24:28 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 01:45:12 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. [.....] -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message