From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 14 12:55:33 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA00396 for current-outgoing; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 12:55:33 -0800 Received: from devnull.mpd.tandem.com (devnull.mpd.tandem.com [131.124.4.29]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA00389 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 12:55:19 -0800 Received: from olympus by devnull.mpd.tandem.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id NAA29905; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 13:26:55 -0600 Received: by olympus (4.1/TSS2.1) id AA03080; Tue, 14 Mar 95 13:25:21 CST From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Message-Id: <9503141925.AA03080@olympus> Subject: Re: Things are looking up :-) To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 13:25:20 -0600 (CST) Cc: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503140736.XAA00670@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Mar 13, 95 11:36:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL17] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 817 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >On Mon, 13 Mar 1995, David Greenman wrote: > >> > > >> > Is there a noticeable difference between 8% and 10% minfree? > >> > >> No, not one that I've ever seen. > > > > Okay.. I was wondering if the original message was advocating > >everyone to reduce their minfree from 10% to 8% for some astounding > >performance gain. :) > > The default minfree for 2.0 was 5%. I'm asking people to increase it to 8% > because of problems with using 5%. > > -DG > That gets expensive on 400Meg partitions. Especially on /usr which truly get cross when you exceed the limit. Boyd -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner faulkner@isd.tandem.com _______________________________________________________________________