From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 21:08:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA27126 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 21:08:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA27024 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 21:08:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA09898; Tue, 5 May 1998 21:08:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 21:08:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "J.A. Terranson" cc: "'FreeBSD Questions'" Subject: Re: /usr time/space preferences auto-change? In-Reply-To: <01BD7872.35175B90@PresidentClintonsLawyer.UnitedStatesArmy.NET> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 May 1998, J.A. Terranson wrote: > I had an interesting set of messages on one of my consoles tonight: > > May 5 21:49:27 ftp4 /kernel: /usr: optimization changed from TIME to SPACE > May 5 21:49:27 ftp4 /kernel: /usr: optimization changed from TIME to SPACE > May 5 21:53:30 ftp4 /kernel: /usr: optimization changed from SPACE to TIME > May 5 21:53:30 ftp4 /kernel: /usr: optimization changed from SPACE to TIME > > Note that the double messages were from the console, not from me pasting > twice for each... You basically ran out of space on /usr, so the kernel changed the optimization to squeeze a bit more out. You must have freed it immediately since the kernel re-tuned /usr back to the default optimization of TIME. > /dev/wd0s1g 197951 131180 50935 72% /usr > > Is this normal behaviour for FBSD? Yes. I was installing onto a 40MB disk and deleting stuff behind sysinstall and got that message pretty early when the partition hit 109% for a while :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message