Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 20:07:46 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: The Sounds of Soft Updates Message-ID: <199810180307.UAA09256@dingo.cdrom.com>
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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
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