From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 1 08:21:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA02998 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 08:21:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA02993 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 08:21:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id SAA07257; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 18:00:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gun.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA03695; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 17:38:38 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 17:38:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Joerg Wunsch , FreeBSD hackers Subject: Re: Lowering minfree to 1% on large disks In-Reply-To: <14982.828343660@critter.tfs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > 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. That sounds reasonable. - -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ $$ Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de $$ pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<< -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMV/4ffMLpmkD/U+FAQH0TQQAhVED/Gu5TNH0KBBVAFdRvpIP+ebI/uOQ SSAFXMTHC+CVF5GXkDi0REHaiFZ3HuFrvT35y965zzeGU0Ns4ThmRePqZ3c6HAcy +oiOoDR2Jr0rO+8PDIfBRm2xbiX8ggphjOqSP6h1I9UWQvrd85I9HEY3Xl0tHMCX 83LkxKlm+EE= =znbf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----