Subject: Re: softdep problems
To: None <abs@netbsd.org, lennart@mail.augustsson.net>
From: Lennart Augustsson <augustss@augustsson.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/07/2000 11:31:08
David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org> wrote:
> > Is anyone working on trying fix the problems with softdep?
> > (There are a bunch of open PRs.)  I love the performance
> > improvement you get rom softdep, but the time gained there is
> > soon lost running fsck.  If I run softdep on my laptop it usually
> > only stays up for a day or two.
> 
>         Is there something specific in your configuration that causes
>         problems - non ffs filesystems, running out of space, unusual
>         bufcache etc?
I just use ffs, I'm not running out of space, I'm using standard
bufcache settings.  So it's a pretty vanilla machine.  I suspect
thatr the disk is slower than on most desktops since this is a
laptop, so that might incur some timing problems.

	-- Lennart