Subject: Re: unified buffers and responsibility
To: Milos Urbanek <urbanek@openbsd.cz>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/13/2002 15:47:03
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:14:59PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> Just a question: Softdep turned on?
> 
> I have had lockup problems, but when I turned softdeps off, I didn't
> get them anymore. Could have been my special type of hard disk usage,
> of course.

In my test case I didn't have softdep.
softdep may have an influence when writing a lot of small files
(like untarring a large archive), but not when writing a single, large
file.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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