Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 07:38:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> Cc: FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: When gcc-2.7.2 hits ctm Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960620072925.449D-100000@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960619195226.3088A-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu>
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On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Chuck Robey wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> Andreas, EVERYONE who uses ctm gets all their updates by mail. I doubt
> if .05 percent of ctm users can take a one day 25MB mailbomb. I sure
> couldn't, the university doesn't give me that much room.
Well isn't it your local FreeBSD box ... what does the university have
to deal with it ...
> To say 'deal
> with it' ignores the point that this simply cannot be dealt with without
> some planning.
That should the user have done before ... it's perhaps not so clever,
to have a too small spool area ... I have much mail and UUCP traffic,
so I planned some reserves ...
Even after I had problems with my 4GB hard drive (which turns at least out
to be possibly a power supply problem), where a had to downsize everything
(5GB) to 1 GB, I have reasonable space in the spool area:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 19487 13364 4565 75% /
mfs:16 63567 7 58475 0% /tmp
/dev/sd0s2e 38991 4039 31833 11% /var
^^^^^
/dev/sd0s2f 78975 39650 33007 55% /data
/dev/sd0s2g 567880 519418 3032 99% /usr
My system is so small here on the 1 GB drive, that I even can't do
a make world ... I only get CTM, because soon I'll have my 4 GB
drive back, and I want to keep my source repository up to date.
What I want to say, getting the cvs-cur mailinglist via CTM means,...
I'm using my system for make worlds and checking out the sources and
so on ... then I do need a lot os space ...
It's always a bad idea to have a too small /var directory ...
/ you can make small, if a separate /var is present and if
tmp files are mainly created in /var/tmp...
/var/spool should be sufficient in space + some extra space ...
And people getting cvs-cur via CTM should face the fact, that
it's possible, to get a 'biggy' every now and then ...
But generally it's of course nice from you to speak it out
loud, that there might be a problem ... I only want to say,
if you prepare your system correctly to get cvs-cur, then
it should be no problem.
Andreas ///
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