From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 19 22:43:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA19146 for current-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 22:43:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA19140 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 22:43:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id HAA10892; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 07:30:59 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by klemm.gtn.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA00572; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 07:38:38 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 07:38:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm To: Chuck Robey cc: FreeBSD current Subject: Re: When gcc-2.7.2 hits ctm In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 /// -- andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<