From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 31 13:41:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA29991 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 13:41:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from zap.io.org (root@zap.io.org [198.133.36.81]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA29984 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 13:41:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (taob@localhost) by zap.io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA15919; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 16:41:22 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: zap.io.org: taob owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 16:41:22 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: Terry Lambert cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Lowering minfree to 1% on large disks In-Reply-To: <199603312126.OAA11913@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 31 Mar 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > If you do this, it will cause the FS mode to toggle constantly. According to the tunefs(8) man page, setting minfree to 5% or less will force space optimization "to always be used". I assume this means even when there is more than 5% free. > Are you prepared to write a defragmenter? No one has written one > yet because they didn't need one -- they didn't try tuning their > reserve down to 1% or 2%. If you do, you'll need one. IOW, just buy more disk. ;-) -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org) System and Network Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"