Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:02:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extreme filesystem sloth Message-ID: <20011128180257.G61580@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <m1667vpeu1.fsf@reader.newsguy.com> References: <XFMail.20011128165908.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <m1667vpeu1.fsf@reader.newsguy.com>
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On Tuesday, 27 November 2001 at 22:52:22 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > "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? If both of these are off and you turn them on, then yes, the peformance will improve by an order of magnitude. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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