[FreeBSD] Softupdate

[Julian Elischer]

I've seen these figure (in fact I did some of these tests)

The soft updates makes deletes 100 times faster on my machine, but the 
disk-space is only actually freed over the next 30 to 45 seconds,
So after the  'rm' you can watch it being freed by doing 'df'
for a time. (the freeing of the removed blocks is done in background).

julian

On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Szabolcs Szigeti wrote:

> Hali!
> 
> Futtat valaki a McKusick fele softupdate stuffezzel megspekelt FreeBSD-t?
> A stabilitasa erdekelne, mert az elobb vettem a faradsagot, es
> leteszteltem, hogy mennyi ido a kernel forras kitarolasa, majd rm-rf-elese
> softupdat nelkul, es vel.
> 
> Softupdate nelkul (P133, 64 M ram, 1.7 Fujitsu) : tar: 2:04, rm: 1:27
> Softupdate-tel:  tar: 0:42, rm: 0:00.7 (!!!)
> 
> Lehet, hogy erdemes lenne olyasmiket, mint a squid file-okat, meg a tmp-t
>  (meg minden mast) softupdate-re rakni, ha stabil.
> 
> 
> szabolcs
> 
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