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Date:      Wed, 29 Aug 2001 21:58:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Trevin Chow <tmchow@sfu.ca>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Performance tuning and adding RAM
Message-ID:  <20010829215734.F79672-100000@benny.geektank.org>
In-Reply-To: <15245.36122.131328.798913@guru.mired.org>

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On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:

> The reliability of soft updates is dependent on knowing that data
> written to disk is actually on the disk. If you turn on softupdates,
> turn off write cache on your disk drives.

I'm confused by your last statement.  Why do I turn off write cache on my
HDs? Are you talking about another sysctl variable or in teh actual bios?


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