From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 21 11:10:34 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 9EA1D37B401 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:10:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-122.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B35D243F85 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:10:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2LJAVJP001836; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:10:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E7B6363.7020902@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:09:23 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michelle Weeks Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: optimization changed from TIME to SPACE References: <1C7CD906-5BC4-11D7-9164-0050E4251459@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <1C7CD906-5BC4-11D7-9164-0050E4251459@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Michelle Weeks wrote: > 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. > > 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? Optimization will switch back to TIME automatically when enough space is freed. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message