From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 21 9:39:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33DD837B401 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 09:39:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (smtp10.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.200.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13AED43F93 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 09:39:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tristan11@mindspring.com) Received: from h-68-164-31-224.snvacaid.covad.net ([68.164.31.224] helo=localhost) by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18wQUd-0002VX-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:39:48 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 09:39:48 -0800 Subject: Re: optimization changed from TIME to SPACE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) From: Michelle Weeks To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <3E7B4A30.3000306@potentialtech.com> Message-Id: <1C7CD906-5BC4-11D7-9164-0050E4251459@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 09:21 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > Michelle Weeks wrote: >> I am running 4.6.2 Release and received the following kernel message: >> /tmp: optimization changed from TIME to SPACE >> I'm not sure what this means? > > It means your /tmp partition is getting full. > When there is plenty of space, the system writes files very quickly, > with little regard for minor amounts of space being wasted. When the > disk fills up, the system switches to SPACE optimization, which makes > saves take longer, but is much less likely to waste any space. > Either delete some files, or get a larger partition for /tmp. With > /tmp, it's very likely that there are a lot of files in there that > could be deleted. > > -- Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com Thank you for the clarification. I have a script running to delete files in the /tmp directory that I will change to run more often. Do I need to do anything to change the optimization back to time? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message