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Date:      Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:28:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD current users <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: something funny with soft updates?
Message-ID:  <200206281828.g5SIS6xI006284@apollo.backplane.com>
References:   <Pine.BSF.4.21.0206280218440.72967-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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:1389.803u 594.961s 35:59.14 91.9%       2697+2248k 11839+66940io 3701pf+0w
:
:It's interesting that despite the the extra writes (63640 of them)
:it took almost the same time from all metrics.
:
:this is a 35 minute subsection of buildworld..
:
:i.e. buildworld up to a particular point,
:
:there may not be anything wrong but I expected more improvement.
:I remember that when I first committed softupdates it made a noticable
:difference....

    Julian, please note that a buildworld does *NOT* seriously exercise
    the filesystem.  I/O ops are mostly reads.  The only area where 
    softupdates might have a major effect would be the rm -rf of the
    object tree at the beginning.

						-Matt


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