Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:58:19 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: fn@Radio-do.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901161457120.76427-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <199901111356.AAA06651@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > >Does softupdates give any gain over async? > >I have /usr/src and /usr/obj both mounted async, noatime, and it does > >seem to be rather nicely fast over default mountops. > > Async isn't fully async in FreeBSD (some directory operations are still > sync), so softupdates is much faster in some cases. Fully async async > seems to be a little faster than softupdates. That's very arbitrary, softupdates can collaps and queue operations and be much faster, it just depends on your operations. -Alfred > > Bruce > > 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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