From owner-cvs-all Tue Nov 27 9: 6:25 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from axl.seasidesoftware.co.za (axl.seasidesoftware.co.za [196.31.7.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A860137B405; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:06:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.seasidesoftware.co.za) by axl.seasidesoftware.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 168lhz-000Lua-00; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 19:07:47 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: dillon@FreeBSD.org Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:01:17 PST." <200111271701.fARH1Hx55357@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 19:07:47 +0200 Message-ID: <84231.1006880867@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:01:17 PST, Sheldon Hearn wrote: | sbin/newfs newfs.8 | Log: | Correct the example introduced in rev 1.29, which suggested a block:frag | size ratio other than 8:1. Currently, we only recommend an 8:1 | ratio, because the impact of others ratios has not been adequately | investigated. I'm still not sure that the following text in the manual page is accurate: These values tend to produce better performance than the defaults for file systems larger than about 5 gigabytes. So far, my Postmark benchmarks on filesystems as small as 128M all show performance improvements using 16k:2k, given an average file size of 2k or more. It seems to me that the decision on what block:frag sizes to use has much more to do with file sizes than with filesystem sizes. Matt, do you have any comments on the manual page text quoted above? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message