Re: [Nolug] Redhat 9 server eating ram like candy...

There is a good description of softupdates in 'man tuning'.

Softupdates are enabled by default on all current FreeBSDs except for the
root file system. You can see if a file system has softupdates enabled by
viewing your mounts:

# mount
/dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local)
/dev/ad0s1g on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0s1e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
procfs on /proc (procfs, local)

You can enable or disable softupdates using tunefs or while creating the
file system.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Manuel Lora" <vanguardist@cox.net>
To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Nolug] Redhat 9 server eating ram like candy...

> Speaking about FreeBSD, what's the deal with softupdates? I understand
that
> it's somewhat similar to a journal on a filesystem, but other than that
I've
> never heard of it. Does it come as a default?
>
> ml
>
> >
> > Also, systems like FreeBSD have virtual memory systems that very much
rely
> > on the amount of paging space being as large as or larger than core
memory.

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