Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 07:27:40 +0000 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Lowering minfree to 1% on large disks Message-ID: <14982.828343660@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Apr 1996 08:04:47 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.3.92.960401075641.205A-100000@knobel.gun.de>
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> When this 10% rule came out, you had to deal with disk sizes about > 100 MB and such ... 10% were about 10 MB. Now you have 4 GB disks > and 10% are about 400MB. More space than those disks ever had. I > think the 10% rule is too static. As far as I recall, the issue is to avoid fragmenting files across cylinder groups. I belive that a rule of some number of MB times the number of cylinder groups would be the correct sollution. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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