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Date:      Tue, 19 May 1998 22:28:07 +0200
From:      Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk>
To:        Jason Nordwick <nordwick@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: softupdates and mount options...
Message-ID:  <19980519222807.29531@deepo.prosa.dk>
In-Reply-To: <35610C6B.5ED4201@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu>; from Jason Nordwick on Mon, May 18, 1998 at 09:36:59PM -0700
References:  <35610C6B.5ED4201@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu>

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Jason Nordwick writes:
> I never told the system (through fstab), to mount sync or async.
> I added softupdates today and put sync under the mount options
> just to be safe, but now it appears to actually make the system
> slower ?  Is this because the system default to async ?

	Ok, let's get this clear:

	1.new kernel, latest sources, latest softupdates
	  on P5-133 x 2 / 7880 UW onboard Adaptec, 4Gb UW.
	  
	  Note: /tmp and /pub were mounted async.
	  NOT /usr/src. i.e.:
	  /pub async only
	  /tmp async only
	  /usr/src softupdates only

	- make -j4 buildworld.  3 minutes -> PANIC

	2.I reboot, fsck^H^H^Hnewfs /usr/src & untar a clean
	  source backup

	- I mount everything "normal" (no sync, no async
	  specified), but /usr/src is softupdate'd:

	  make -j4 buildworld.

	  It's been running for 40 minutes so far. No glitch.

	Observations:

	  It looks like mounting async _other_ FS'es
	  than a softupdate one still causes panics --
	  this wasn't explicit in the last messages.

	  AHC_TAGENABLE and AHC_ALLOWMEMIO no good for me
	  (SCB lockups, couldn't even break into the debugger).







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