Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 11:05:17 +0100 From: Thomas Vogt <turbo23@gmx.net> To: performance@freebsd.org Subject: tunefs -m minfree for "big drives" Message-ID: <4052DCDD.5040703@gmx.net>
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Hi FreeBSD 4.9 man tunefs(8) explains in section "-m minfree" that default 8% disk space is reserved for root. The man page also says clearly that I'll lose performance if I lower minfree. On my mailserver I've one drive for the base system and a raid enviroment with 500GB space for the users mailboxes. 8% of 500gb space is a lot of space which I can't use anymore for my users mailboxes. So if I set this minfree to < 8% is there any other option I've to set that I don't lose too much performance. We talk about a lot of write procedures for small files. Regards Thomas Vogt
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