On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Doug Barton wrote:
>Ted Sikora wrote:
>>
>> A while ago several people suggested using /tmp on a ramdisk along with
>> softupdates. Right now I am running several production servers with
>> 4.1-STABLE with softupdates. I'm really happy with the performance. What
>> benefits
On Fri 2000-07-28 (17:23), Doug Barton wrote:
> Ted Sikora wrote:
> >
> > A while ago several people suggested using /tmp on a ramdisk along with
> > softupdates. Right now I am running several production servers with
> > 4.1-STABLE with softupdates. I'm really happy with the performance. What
>
Adam wrote:
>
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Doug Barton wrote:
>
> >Ted Sikora wrote:
> >>
> >> A while ago several people suggested using /tmp on a ramdisk along with
> >> softupdates. Right now I am running several production servers with
> >> 4.1-STABLE with softupdates. I'm really happy with the pe
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Doug Barton wrote:
>Adam wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Doug Barton wrote:
>>
>> >Ted Sikora wrote:
>> >>
>> >> A while ago several people suggested using /tmp on a ramdisk along with
>> >> softupdates. Right now I am running several production servers with
>> >> 4.1-STA
The issue is that mount_mfs is simply newfs with a catch: it
constructs the new filesystem completely in memory and lives on as
the storage for the mounted filesystem. If you view the processes on
a system using MFS, you will notice that one of them is the original
mount_mfs, having become a daem
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> Yes, things are stored twice in memory: once in the buffer cache and
> once in the MFS process. Yes, they are also copied multiple times.
> MFS simply can't perform as well as you might expect. The malloc disk
> device can because it simp
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote:
> This is more out of curiousity than criticism;
>
> ..but why not just make a charecter device that corresponds to a chunk
> of VM and simply run newfs on that?
>
> You would still have a relatively proven filesystem (like FFS) and you
> also get
MD has supplanted MFS, it doesn't run in conjunction with it.
Just consider MD the new name for MFS if it makes it easier.
- Jordan
> On Fri 2000-07-28 (17:23), Doug Barton wrote:
> > Ted Sikora wrote:
> > >
> > > A while ago several people suggested using /tmp on a ramdisk along with
> > > so
In message <41777.964992152@localhost>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
>
>MD has supplanted MFS, it doesn't run in conjunction with it.
>Just consider MD the new name for MFS if it makes it easier.
Not *quite* true. MD and VN has supplanted MFS.
For "boot with this ram-disk" it's MD, for "put my /
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