Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:00:59 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Frank Nobis <fn@Radio-do.de> Cc: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990108110017.4952A-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <ygehfu2nru1.fsf@trinity.radio-do.de>
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I hope you have it on your /usr/obj partition, because that's where it would be used and make a difference. It only affects writes. On 8 Jan 1999, Frank Nobis wrote: > >>>>> "Kenneth" == Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> writes: > > Kenneth> I have seen all the messages about Softupdates, and such, > Kenneth> and I was wondering what the advantages of using > Kenneth> Softupdates are (or will be once the code is debugged). I > Kenneth> have looked on the FreeBSD website, and couldn't find > Kenneth> this information there. > > Just to give you an impression on what is possible. After the > 3.0 Release date I enabled softupdates on my src > partition. I'm doing a make world -j4 on my dual PII 400 in > less than one hour. I stress test my system at least once a > day with that and had absolutely no problems regarding > softupdates until now. > > For now the current is solid as a rock for me. > > fn@trinity:ttyp1$ uptime > 8:29AM up 7 days, 17:18, 2 users, load averages: 2.07, 2.00, 1.98 > > The load come from rc5des running :-) and 7 days ago I > switched to the new bootblocks. > > Regards > Frank > -- > Frank Nobis Email: PGP AVAILABLE > Landgrafenstr. 130 dg3dcn http://www.radio-do.de/~fn/ > 44139 Dortmund Powered by SMP FreeBSD > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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