From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 3 13:30:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C709816A4BF for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:30:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E595243FBD for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:30:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (neutrino.centtech.com [204.177.173.28]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h83KUiob067498; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:30:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3F564F70.1000905@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 15:30:40 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp References: <64484.1062620915@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <64484.1062620915@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org cc: Petri Helenius Subject: Re: 20TB Storage System X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 20:30:45 -0000 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <3F564DF6.3090200@he.iki.fi>, Petri Helenius writes: > > >>You have any insight into the fsck memory consumption? I remember getting >>myself saved quite a long time ago by reducing the number of inodes. > > > I have not studied it. I always try to avoid having more than an > order of magnitude more inodes than I need, it also saves fsck time. > So what's the appropriate way to calculate what blocksize and how many inodes you should use? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------