From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 15 22:14:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA12864 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:14:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from minos.dyn.ml.org (dominus@client-151-197-112-173.bellatlantic.net [151.197.112.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA12738 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:13:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dominus@lies.dyn.ml.org) Received: from localhost (dominus@localhost) by minos.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA00854; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:13:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dominus@lies.dyn.ml.org) X-Authentication-Warning: minos.dyn.ml.org: dominus owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:13:30 -0400 (EDT) From: James X-Sender: dominus@localhost Reply-To: higginsj@iname.com To: Tim Gerchmez cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where to get Windows Internet stuff/ More on Windows & BSD In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980615214303.007f7960@mx.serv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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