Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:42:48 +0530 From: Subhro Sankha Kar <subhro@80386.org> To: illoai@gmail.com Cc: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ran out of inodes on /var, recommended value? Message-ID: <F8450CB7-641F-43E7-B5F0-E4CB77CD7C97@80386.org> In-Reply-To: <CAHHBGkpeQq=jW7nCwKcmeTJRcmcOxR6O4bR49ZUSG=C-A4bv-g@mail.gmail.com> References: <4FD34E2A.7060700@dreamchaser.org> <20120609233827.497b2ca4@gumby.homeunix.com> <CAHHBGkpeQq=jW7nCwKcmeTJRcmcOxR6O4bR49ZUSG=C-A4bv-g@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10-Jun-2012, at 6:13 AM, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > On 9 June 2012 18:38, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 07:22:50 -0600 >> Gary Aitken wrote: >>=20 >>> I reconfigured my ssd filesystem with the /var partition of size >>> 512M. Unfortunately, something in portsnap or the ports tree in >>> general uses a boatload of small files, and i ran out of inodes. = Can >>> anyone recommend an appropriate size for the newfs -i value? 1024? >>> less? >>=20 >> portsnap needs roughly one file per port plus one for each >> out of date port during a fetch. There are 23658 ports. >>=20 >> In FreeBSD 9 the fragment size increased, halving the default number = of >> inodes. With only 32k inodes it's possible to run out with portsnap >> alone. You can probably get away with the old default of 64k (-i >> 8192), or perhaps 128k (-i 4096). Check how many files you have = outside >> of portsnap and do the arithmetic. >>=20 >=20 > Or, move the portsnap tree to somewhere other than /var > (see /etc/portsnap.conf for that & such). > I think that a file-backed md* mounted only when portsnap > was in use would save on inodes, yeah? Actually I think that is a very good idea. That is how I have set up my = system as well with one difference. I have tons of memory and use a = memory based filesystem to store all the in-compile objects. -- Subhro Sankha Kar System Administrator Working and Playing with FreeBSD since 2002=
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