From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 10 10:04:57 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA19153 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:04:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA19139 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:04:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA15566; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:01:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdA15561; Fri Jan 8 19:01:07 1999 Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:00:59 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Frank Nobis cc: Kenneth Wayne Culver , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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