From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 15 12:53:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bogslab.ucdavis.edu (bogslab.ucdavis.edu [169.237.68.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24DB615573 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:53:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu) Received: from thistle.bogs.org (thistle.bogs.org [198.137.203.61]) by bogslab.ucdavis.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA07382 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:53:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from thistle.bogs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thistle.bogs.org (8.9.3/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA62035 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:55:31 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199912152055.MAA62035@thistle.bogs.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-To: "Fritz Heinrichmeyer" X-Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /tmp , /var/tmp much too small (was Re: File system full). In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Dec 1999 08:00:35 +0100." <000e01bf46ca$16632e40$0607b084@fernunihagen.de> Reply-To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:55:30 -0800 From: Greg Shenaut Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <000e01bf46ca$16632e40$0607b084@fernunihagen.de>, "Fritz Heinrichmeyer" cleopede: >I vote for very large default spool areas (they not only send them >powerpoint presentations, they also want to print them). The automatic >calculation of partitions under freebsd leads to unuseable mail and print >spool systems in practice. Hear, hear. And while we're at it, has anyone else added a bunch of memory to their system and then realized that their (default) swap partition was way too small? I vote for the auto-sized swap to be a function both of amount of memory and *size of disk*, so that if you have a "big" disk, then you get extra of swap even if you only have, say, 16MB of memory while installing. For example, what if the default size of a swap partition was (memsize * 2) * max(1, disksize / 1G) (rounded up appropriately), where the scale factor is 1 for disks 1GB or less in size, but magnified linearly above that size? Greg Shenaut To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message