From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 15 0:14:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from deborah.paradise.net.nz (deborah.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A05FB37B409 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:14:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marki@paradise.net.nz) Received: from paradise.net.nz (203-79-102-232.tnt14.paradise.net.nz [203.79.102.232]) by deborah.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 449371FA171; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:14:19 +1200 (NZST) Message-ID: <3B7A214B.FD6F34F6@paradise.net.nz> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:14:19 +1200 From: Mark Ibell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jerry@thehutt.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MFS Sizing Problems References: <20010814135213.A64512@gemini.thehutt.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jerry A!" wrote: > > I'm trying to get an mfs /tmp set up on a box running 4.4-PRERELEASE > (20010810). > > There are two issues I'm running into. > > 1. No matter what size I give via the "-s" option, the partition is > never larger than 500M. This machine has a 1g of physical mem and 2g of > swap. It has breathing room for the 800M I would prefer to make /tmp. Do you by any chance have more than one swap partition? MFS will only use the *specified* swap device as a backing store. > > 2. Undaunted, I decided to use the 500M for right now, realizing that > when I compiled X it would end up having to swap to disk. However, that > never happened. The 500m in /tmp filled up, but never swapped any of > itself out to disk. > > For 1, is there some sysctl knob that I can change? For 2, is this a > bug or just something funky in regards to FreeBSD's implementation of > mfs? > > Thanks in advance... > > --Jerry > > name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a > phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death... > email: jerry@thehutt.org || ...It's much more important > || than that! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message