From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 11 9:41:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goliath.siemens.de (goliath.siemens.de [194.138.37.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81CF037B479 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 09:41:16 -0800 (PST) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer goliath.siemens.de) Received: from mail3.siemens.de (mail3.siemens.de [139.25.208.14]) by goliath.siemens.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eABHf4l21713; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 18:41:05 +0100 (MET) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [139.25.42.7]) by mail3.siemens.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eABHf4026716045; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 18:41:04 +0100 (MET) Received: (from localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eABHf4o01149; Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 18:41:04 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Mike Batchelor , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory Caching Message-ID: <20001111184104.A13422@curry.mchp.siemens.de> References: <003201c04c8a$9209fda0$8ded4518@kldt1.bc.wave.home.com> <20001111021530.M11449@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001111021530.M11449@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 02:15:30AM -0800 X-Echelon: BND CIA NSA Mossad KGB MI6 IRA detonator nuclear assault strike Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11-Nov-2000 at 02:15:30 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > ... > > So either: > 1) read /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates and enable softupdates > -or- > 2) mount your filesystems 'async' which can cause serious problems > if you happen to crash while it's 'async' > > option 1 is a better idea. :) > > you may also want to try this setting: > > sysctl -w vfs.vmiodirenable=1 Is somewhere documented what this does and if it is dangerous? It is not in the manpages... Thanks, -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message