From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 9 17:34:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21109 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 17:34:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21103 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 17:34:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelh@cet.co.jp) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.8/CET-v2.2) with SMTP id AAA16939; Sun, 10 May 1998 00:33:11 GMT Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 09:33:11 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Amancio Hasty cc: Julian Elischer , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Soft update code looking very stable In-Reply-To: <199805090321.UAA04145@rah.star-gate.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 8 May 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote: > Current version does not need the "Hasty Load" which I stumble by accident > besides the obvious panic a side effect of such test is that soft updates > used to go hog-wild with memory -- Kirk devised a clever way to prevent > soft updates from eating up all your memory during a "Hasty Load". The code had a backoff mechanism before, I'll have to do a diff to see what changed. Regards, Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message