Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:41:08 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Sounds of Soft Updates Message-ID: <19981019124108.33310@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810191008390.585-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>; from Jason C. Wells on Oct 10, 1998 at 10:09:33AM -0700 References: <199810180307.UAA09256@dingo.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810191008390.585-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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On Oct 10, 1998 at 10:09:33AM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > > 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. :) Sounds like Mike's been hanging around with Jordan's cats again. :-) -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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