From owner-cvs-all Thu Jun 22 4: 6: 7 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail.surf1.de (mail.surf1.de [194.25.165.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF1BB37C1F8; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 04:05:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@big.endian.de) Received: from neutron.cichlids.com (p3E9C110D.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [62.156.17.13]) by mail.surf1.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05586; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:05:22 +0200 Received: from cichlids.cichlids.com (cichlids.cichlids.com [192.168.0.10]) by neutron.cichlids.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E8DEAC27; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:05:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: by cichlids.cichlids.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9375814A67; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:05:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:05:51 +0200 From: Alexander Langer To: Will Andrews Cc: Kirk McKusick , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates softdep.h ffs_softdep.c Message-ID: <20000622130551.A5363@cichlids.cichlids.com> References: <200006220029.RAA97417@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000621223309.G47446@argon.gryphonsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000621223309.G47446@argon.gryphonsoft.com>; from andrews@technologist.com on Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 10:33:09PM -0400 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F X-PGP-at: finger alex@big.endian.de X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Will Andrews (andrews@technologist.com): > is it practical to do this? I have it enabled on all filesystems on my > local machines and have rarely (if ever) had problems directly related > to softupdates. I have on cheap motherboards/RAM. I've always got about 30 days uptime with softupdates and then a spontanous reboot, w/o softupdates I got 80 days and then a power outage :) Somehow, softupdates dislikes my cheap hardware when it is stressed by high I/O. However, it might be in GENERIC but commented out (my favourite) Alex -- cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message