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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/


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