From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Nov 10 04:29:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA05058 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 04:29:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from bbs.mpcs.com (hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com [204.215.226.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA05051 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 04:29:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from hgoldste@localhost) by bbs.mpcs.com (8.8.2/8.8.2/MPCS) id HAA19699; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 07:29:36 -0500 Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 07:29:36 -0500 From: Howard Goldstein Message-Id: <199611101229.HAA19699@bbs.mpcs.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Cc: Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com Subject: Re: Best mount options, tunefs for newsserver In-Reply-To: <199611100216.SAA27584@salsa.gv.ssi1.com> Reply-To: hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199611100216.SAA27584@salsa.gv.ssi1.com>, you wrote: : On Nov 9, 4:59pm, Howard Goldstein wrote: : } Subject: Best mount options, tunefs for newsserver : } For further performance improvements the tunefs (8) hints that a space : } optimized fs costs a lot. My messages log shows /kernel keeps : } changing the tuning of the news spool, although for the last two days : } it's kept it on space optimized. : : Sometimes I have my doubts about its heuristics, but ... As do I. I try to keep things so the spool is no more than 75% full when news.daily kicks in, but it consistently stays in SPACE optimization. When it bounces into TIME optimization it kicks back to SPACE within a handful of minutes. Unfortunately the person who mk'd this filesystem didn't set me up with enough inodes so I don't really have much choice but to keep it no more than 75%! -- Howard Goldstein