Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:13:30 -0400 (EDT) From: James <dominus@lies.dyn.ml.org> To: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where to get Windows Internet stuff/ More on Windows & BSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980616010758.844A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980615214303.007f7960@mx.serv.net>
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On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > At 12:33 AM 6/16/98 -0400, James wrote: > > >I have also used some scientific apps that make HEAVY use of /var and > >/tmp. As in hunderds of megs. If this was the case then both you / and > >/var partitions would be in trouble. The morale, think about what you > >want the machine for before writing the partition table or disk label. > > Weren't these scientific apps configurable to use different directories, > say custom dirs in /usr? If not, they weren't very well written. They lived in /usr but they did several very complex integrations in the process of running and wrote out large temporary files containing results and partial results that resided in /var and /tmp until the app terminated. Problem is that even on an RS/6000 with 512 meg of RAM and SCSI disks they took days or as much as a month to complete one job. Meanwhile, the machine is still cranking on with it's daily duties. James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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