Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:09:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Sounds of Soft Updates Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810191008390.585-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <199810180307.UAA09256@dingo.cdrom.com>
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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. :) Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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