From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 1 18:17:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 303A137B401 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 18:17:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from isber.ucsb.edu (research.isber.ucsb.edu [128.111.147.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A86C343FBF for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 18:17:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randall@isber.ucsb.edu) Received: from research.isber.ucsb.edu ([128.111.147.5]) by isber.ucsb.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 19BPAw-000LP7-00; Thu, 01 May 2003 18:17:22 -0700 Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 18:17:22 -0700 (PDT) From: randall ehren To: Terry Lambert In-Reply-To: <3EB1C112.DB934186@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanner: exiscan *19BPAw-000LP7-00*KkHN1FmbyoI* (ISBER - Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research) cc: Doveclaw cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-performance Digest, Vol 3, Issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 01:17:28 -0000 > It's the same reason that people think 8% of a 120GB hard drive > is "a lot of space" and refuse to set their free reserve on their > FS's high enough to avoid fragmentation. what do you mean by "set their free reserve"? i've picked up on not letting filesystems get beyond 90% full but have not heard about setting a free reserve. -randall -- :// randall s. ehren :// voice 805.893.5632 :// systems administrator :// isber|survey|avss.ucsb.edu :// institute for social, behavioral, and economic research