From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 1 16:52:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F3337B42C for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:52:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA71514; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 19:51:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 19:51:06 -0400 From: Michael Lucas To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: best softupdates/wc combination for laptop Message-ID: <20010601195106.A71406@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20010530111716.A52805@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20010530111716.A52805@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:17:16AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:17:16AM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > > What would be the best combination of softupdates and write caching for > laptop use? It depends on your system stability. Some of us who should know better do stupid things with our laptops. These stupid things can crash the system. My laptop's write caching is off, because I am a damn fool. If you're a user who doesn't want to see just how many different sorts of bullets you can put in your foot, write caching is just fine. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message