Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 10:08:45 CST From: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Cc: taob@risc.org, mmead@goof.com, isp@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? Message-ID: <199703111608.KAA28112@solaria.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.94.970309232108.6880E-100000@misery.sdf.com> from "Tom Samplonius" at Mar 9, 97 11:25:14 pm
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> But isn't choosing block and fragment sizes very important as well? > > The default of 8192 and 1024 seems fast, but seems to be wasting space. > I remember Joe Greco mentioning something about disappointing file system > performance if these are messed with the wrong way. Yeah, well, I've traditionally used 4096/512 but in the last year or so it's seemed to me that a few machines that I have with 8192/1024 are "faster" (based mostly on feel). I had done some experimentation that seemed to support that. Sorry I don't have any handy references right now. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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