Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:31:12 -0400 From: Josh Osborne <stripes@mac.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysadmin article Message-ID: <200106152232.PAA02958@smtpout.mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20010615213739.B12591@hades.hell.gr>
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On Friday, June 15, 2001, at 02:37 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:23:21PM -0400, Rajappa Iyer wrote: >> http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm >> >> Any obvious reasons why FreeBSD performed so poorly for these people? > > Yes, it's not very difficult to guess why. If you read the tuning(7) > manpage in recent 4.x FreeBSD systems you will notice that even the > order in which you lay out the partitions on the disks ruding > installation time can play a significant role in filesystem speed. > Softupdates are disabled by default, and for a good reason too > (reliability is more important than raw speed to the people who > install FreeBSD for the first time; if it isn't they can always enable > softupdates later on). [...] Is softupdates known to be unreliable, or is it merely a distrust of new code? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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