Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:52:22 -0800 From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extreme filesystem sloth Message-ID: <m1667vpeu1.fsf@reader.newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20011128165908.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> ("Daniel O'Connor"'s message of "Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:59:08 %2B1030 (CST)") References: <XFMail.20011128165908.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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"Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> writes: > On 28-Nov-2001 Harry Putnam wrote: >> 4.3-STABLE on a Toshiba 4005 (Pentium II 233mhz) >> >> Let me preface these remarks with a comment to set the tone. >> This is not an attempt at starting a religous war a la >> linux vs FreeBSD. >> >> I suspect what I see is the result of poor or misguided configs on my >> part but have no clue what things to look at. > > Turn softupdates on. > (man tunefs) > > Possibly also turn write caching on if it is off. > (man ata) OK, thanks Daniel. Look like good clues. I'm eager to try them out. Do you think these things will improve things quite noticably? I can't test it just now as I'm rsyncing some 600mb of mail and news across from my desktop. (Leaving town in the morning) and that will take a while. But looking at the man pages its hard to get an idea how much of improvement this might make. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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