Re: softupdates and debug.max_softdeps

[Mike Smith]

>   That is interesting.  So I guess the conclusion to this is, softupdates
> is useful for bursty IO, but not sustained because it can get far behind
> until it eventually reaches the point where the machine reboots silently.
> I guess the delay until reboot is dependent on the size of max_softdeps.
> If it is big, it takes a while.

I mentioned this a while back in the context of suspended I/O (in this 
case, a RAID array busy dealing with a failed disk).  There wasn't much 
interest in dealing with it evinced at that point.

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