Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:14:19 +1200 From: Mark Ibell <marki@paradise.net.nz> To: jerry@thehutt.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MFS Sizing Problems Message-ID: <3B7A214B.FD6F34F6@paradise.net.nz> References: <20010814135213.A64512@gemini.thehutt.org>
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"Jerry A!" wrote: > > I'm trying to get an mfs /tmp set up on a box running 4.4-PRERELEASE > (20010810). > > There are two issues I'm running into. > > 1. No matter what size I give via the "-s" option, the partition is > never larger than 500M. This machine has a 1g of physical mem and 2g of > swap. It has breathing room for the 800M I would prefer to make /tmp. Do you by any chance have more than one swap partition? MFS will only use the *specified* swap device as a backing store. > > 2. Undaunted, I decided to use the 500M for right now, realizing that > when I compiled X it would end up having to swap to disk. However, that > never happened. The 500m in /tmp filled up, but never swapped any of > itself out to disk. > > For 1, is there some sysctl knob that I can change? For 2, is this a > bug or just something funky in regards to FreeBSD's implementation of > mfs? > > Thanks in advance... > > --Jerry > > name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a > phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death... > email: jerry@thehutt.org || ...It's much more important > || than that! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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