Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 08:53:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org> To: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: Jason DiCioccio <geniusj@bluenugget.net>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, Sung Nae Cho <sucho2@quasar.phys.vt.edu>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regarding hw.ata.wc="1"...... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107240845420.92951-100000@snafu.adept.org> In-Reply-To: <3B5D94E7.4680ACEF@mitre.org>
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Jason Andresen wrote: > I think the problem was that FreeBSD started getting killed in various > benchmarks. Suddenly we have a filesystem that writes slower than > Solaris and that slows down the entire box. Also, as a desktop OS > many people noticed that their FreeBSD boxes were writing much slower > than even the Windows NT boxes. It was really painful. *sigh* I think the problem is people reading (and conducting) benchmarks without understanding what's being tested and how, etc. Unfortuneately then, the reason I chose FreeBSD (server-tuned OS) so many years ago is no longer valid. Of course, I knew this would eventually happen in our race to keep up with the ever popular penguin (oh YAY!). > Finally, the people who really need the sort of protection that sync > writes gives are the kind who will know to turn off the write cache. Yeah, I remember arguments like this for some other changes too. > A sysinstall prompt would be nice though. An even nicer option > would be a little menu on the diskLabel part of the install that > asks what options you want to enable on the filesystem when you > create it (softupdates, etc...). Not a bad idea... should be much easier to implement since softupdates became more 'standard' (no more licensing issues). :) Later, -Mike -- Log analysis mailing list: http://www.adept.org/mailinglists.html#logwatchers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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