Peter Seebach wrote:
> >7. Remove "update=YES" from your /etc/rc.conf file. update(8) is no longer
> >   needed. Its work is now done in a more sophisticated way by a kernel
> >   thread.
> 
> Is it still done if you've got some non-soft-update filesystems?  Maybe
> turning it off will improve performance further.  ;-)

update(8) was abandoned independ of soft-updates, IIRC.
It's task is now handled by kernel threads for all
filesystems.

  Guenther