Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 17:38:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.GUN.de> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> 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: <Pine.BSF.3.92.960401173334.3662A-100000@knobel.gun.de> In-Reply-To: <14982.828343660@critter.tfs.com>
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-----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-----
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