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Date:      Tue, 14 Mar 1995 13:25:20 -0600 (CST)
From:      faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner)
To:        davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Things are looking up :-)
Message-ID:  <9503141925.AA03080@olympus>
In-Reply-To: <199503140736.XAA00670@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Mar 13, 95 11:36:16 pm

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> 
> >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

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 Boyd Faulkner                                  faulkner@isd.tandem.com 
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