Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:07:16 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Rajappa Iyer <rsi@panix.com>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sysadmin article Message-ID: <20010615180408.T26286-100000@achilles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <200106152133.f5FLXll52567@earth.backplane.com>
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On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > > :softupdates later on). Write-back caching is disabled in the disks, > :even if they support it. This is yet another step towards making the > :default installation of FreeBSD as reliable a system as it can be. > > Well, not any more... we caved in on that one because the performance > loss was insane. But for 4.2 it was turned off. > > -Matt Actually, I think write caching was on for 4.2. I'd hate to see what their benchmark would've shown with write caching and softupdates off. <shudder> Of course, assuming dirpref and Ian's new directory cache have been MFC'd by the time 4.4 comes out, it will scream on that same benchmark. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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