Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 22:34:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Lowering minfree to 1% on large disks Message-ID: <199603312034.WAA00828@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960331133320.29121H-100000@zap.io.org> from "Brian Tao" at Mar 31, 96 01:49:15 pm
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As Brian Tao wrote: > I know the tunefs man page contains warnings about lowering the > minfree threshold on a disk to below 5%, but besides file write > performance, is there any other reason *not* to drop it down to 1 or > 2 percent? File *write* performance? I think it's the overall file system performance. Read the daemon book... Perhaps for a rather static file system, where you're keeping the fragmentation low by restore(8)ing the file system frequently after modifications, it might be okay, or for file systems that are only rarely used at all. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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