Salvo Bartolotta wrote:
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OK, I;ve looked and looked and can't seem to figure out how to set
hw.ata.wc to enabled. I've put and a few other things in
/etc/sysctl.conf, the others get set, hw.ata.wc doesn't. You can't
change it by hand either as sysctl tells
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 12:50:08AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
For the people wanting to turn on write caching ... it WILL break
the write ordering needed by softupdates and journaling filesystems,
so don't do it unless you know what you're doing.
I guess it would be better to do this kind
Bruce Evans wrote (2001/04/28):
This is probably caused by write caching now being off by default
in the ata driver, possibly amplified by not using soft updates.
Without the new dir allocation, -current would be even slower :(.
Yes, thanks. I really forgot on this change.
My rough results
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OK, I;ve looked and looked and can't seem to figure out how to set
hw.ata.wc to enabled. I've put and a few other things in
/etc/sysctl.conf, the others get set, hw.ata.wc doesn't. You can't
change it by hand either as sysctl tells you it's readonly. Grepping in
Erick Kinnee wrote:
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 09:24:40AM -0500, Erick Kinnee wrote:
No flames please, I feel I have tried to find the answer. :)
Ok, I do deserve a flame it seems. I totally missed man ata. The
loader.conf manpage does state that there are 4 sysctl knobs tuneable
from there.
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Bruce Evans wrote:
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Cejka Rudolf wrote:
Right now, I have upgraded my -current machine from
February 13 to April 26.
I were pleased with change to dir allocation in FFS,
but here are my unpleasant test results (UDMA33, partition
is 3 GB
Right now, I have upgraded my -current machine from
February 13 to April 26.
I were pleased with change to dir allocation in FFS,
but here are my unpleasant test results (UDMA33, partition
is 3 GB where 1 GB is free, soft-updates are enabled):
Old system New
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Cejka Rudolf wrote:
Right now, I have upgraded my -current machine from
February 13 to April 26.
I were pleased with change to dir allocation in FFS,
but here are my unpleasant test results (UDMA33, partition
is 3 GB where 1 GB is free, soft-updates are enabled):
