Subject: Re: changing default for UFS_DIRHASH and NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/03/2005 21:26:07
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 01:30:26PM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
>
> Are you running with softdeps enabled, too? I've had softdeps and
> new_bufq_strategy bring this system to it's knees when doing a lot of stuff
> at once - but running without softdeps, without new_bufq_strategy,
> everything works just fine.
I can't reproduce what you're describing, but I note that you seem to be
supporting a claim about the effect of one variable by using evidence in
which you explicitly admit that it is confounded with another variable.
That is not very persuasive to me.
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Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
"The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is to be
abandoned or transcended, there is no problem." - Noam Chomsky