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Date:      Tue, 20 Oct 1998 11:20:46 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The Sounds of Soft Updates
Message-ID:  <19981020112046.G433@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981019124108.33310@right.PCS>; from Jonathan Lemon on Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 12:41:08PM -0500
References:  <199810180307.UAA09256@dingo.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810191008390.585-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> <19981019124108.33310@right.PCS>

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On Monday, 19 October 1998 at 12:41:08 -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> On Oct 10, 1998 at 10:09:33AM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote:
>>> If you don't know what I'm talking about, and you don't have a system
>>> running it, then I guess I should explain that Soft Updates pushes
>>> pending writes out to disk once a second.  If the system's not very
>>> busy, you get a little burst of activity every second; on the old
>>> Barracuda I'm using here it sounds a bit like a Burmese with a bell
>>> working on a hairball.
>>
>> I have "soft updates" and I did not even know it.
>>
>> Thanks for the brilliant technical article on how to determine the
>> configuration of one's system. :)
>
> Sounds like Mike's been hanging around with Jordan's cats again.  :-)

And I thought he was referring to mine.  I didn't know that Jordan had
Burmese.  But then, mine don't have bells.

Greg
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