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Date:      Tue, 07 Jan 2003 10:11:05 +0100
From:      phk@freebsd.org
To:        "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw@withagen.nl>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: panic with panic: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small... 
Message-ID:  <31595.1041930665@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Jan 2003 10:04:59 %2B0100." <01e701c2b62b$db07ddd0$471b3dd4@dual> 

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In message <01e701c2b62b$db07ddd0$471b3dd4@dual>, "Willem Jan Withagen" writes:
>I was able to copy the full 100+Gb.
>Next I'm going to try and fill the disk to the max as user, but i guess it'll not trigger this bug.
>
>And to that fact I have a question:
>    At the moment 8% of the disk is reserved. 
>    It being a 170Gb raid, that wastes a good 13,6Gb, which I find at lot.
>    tunefs lets me bring that down to 5% = 8,5Gb without speed penalty.
>    But is for this size of spare space such a large threshold really required??
>    And IF i would like to experiment, where do I look for the knop to turn??

Basically you don't need to reserve anything, but as you get closer to
filling the disk the time to find a free space increases rapidly and
your files get very fragmented.  Trouble is: they never get defragmented
unless you copy them (or do a full dump/restore).

I'm not sure how to nail the "right" number of % down, and I'm sure
that both Kirk and I would like to hear your numbers :-)

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