Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 18:42:49 PDT From: "Brian Feldman" <brianfeldman@hotmail.com> To: julian@whistle.com, brian@Awfulhak.org Cc: opsys@mail.webspan.net, brianfeldman@hotmail.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SoftUpdates stable?? Message-ID: <19980516014250.15918.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Yep, Brian, that's exactly what I'm doing here; as I said, I'll come back with more info when more info exists. Brian Feldman >From brian@awfulhak.org Fri May 15 18:01:00 1998 >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 <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?? >In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 15 May 1998 01:24:28 PDT." > <Pine.BSF.3.95.980515012105.12356A-100000@current1.whistle.com> >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 01:45:12 +0100 >From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.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 <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org> > <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; >Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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