Yes, but in the spirit of keeping the post simple for our new user, I didnt bring in complexities of how a F720 and lower work, or clustering.

So yes, my post is somewhat inaccurate outside the scope of the reply itself.

:-----Original Message----- :From: tkaczma@gryf.net [mailto:tkaczma@gryf.net] :Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 8:51 AM :Cc: toasters@mathworks.com :Subject: RE: "Wac"-ing the WAFL? : : : :On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Mohler, Jeff wrote: : :> When a series of writes comes into the box, it is buffered :*im making this :> simple*, and it flushed out to disk (on a 760) ever 10 :seconds, of when 16Mb of :> data is in the buffer (NVRAM). : :This is inaccurate, I believe in clustered machines with 32MB :NVRAM it is :8MB. I think the general rule is half of NVRAM dedicated to the :particular filer. : :Tom :