From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 11 08:09:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA15320 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:09:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from anacreon.sol.net (anacreon.sol.net [206.55.64.116]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA15293; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:09:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from solaria.sol.net (solaria.sol.net [206.55.65.75]) by anacreon.sol.net (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA09719; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:08:49 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost by solaria.sol.net (8.5/8.5) id KAA28112; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:08:47 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199703111608.KAA28112@solaria.sol.net> Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 10:08:45 CST Cc: taob@risc.org, mmead@goof.com, isp@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Tom Samplonius" at Mar 9, 97 11:25:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL65] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > But isn't choosing block and fragment sizes very important as well? > > The default of 8192 and 1024 seems fast, but seems to be wasting space. > I remember Joe Greco mentioning something about disappointing file system > performance if these are messed with the wrong way. Yeah, well, I've traditionally used 4096/512 but in the last year or so it's seemed to me that a few machines that I have with 8192/1024 are "faster" (based mostly on feel). I had done some experimentation that seemed to support that. Sorry I don't have any handy references right now. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847