From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 17 20:03:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27168 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 20:03:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles113.castles.com [208.214.165.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA27163 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 20:03:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA09256 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 20:07:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810180307.UAA09256@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: The Sounds of Soft Updates Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 20:07:46 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org One of those little things which mark you as a geek is trying to tell what operating system is running on a machine by the noises the disk unit(s) attached to it make. Soft Updates makes this game almost too easy; it's got rhythm. 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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message