Re: Disk Fills Up and fsck "Compresses" it

What do you mean by "softupdates?" Is that a parameter in what I am guessing
is the conf file?

Yudhvir

On 5/15/07, Jim C. Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> wrote:
>
> I'm guessing you're seeing the affect of softupdates. With those enabled
> it can take some time before the space freed by a delete will actually
> show up as available.
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:18:42PM -0700, Y Sidhu wrote:
> > Anyone seen PG filling up a 66 GB partition from say 40-ish percentage
> to
> > 60-ish percentage in a manner of minutes. When I run a 'fsck' the disk
> usage
> > comes down to 40-ish percentage. That's about 10+ GB's variance.
> >
> > This is a FreeBSD 6.2 RC2, 4GB memory, Xeon 3.2 GHz '4' of the '8' CPUs
> in
> > use - dual cpu, dual core with HTT turned off in the sense that the
> other 4
> > cpu's have been masked out. The drive is a Western Digital 70 GB SATA.
> >
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