Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 09:39:48 -0800 From: Michelle Weeks <tristan11@mindspring.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: optimization changed from TIME to SPACE Message-ID: <1C7CD906-5BC4-11D7-9164-0050E4251459@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3E7B4A30.3000306@potentialtech.com>
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On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 09:21 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > Michelle Weeks wrote: >> I am running 4.6.2 Release and received the following kernel message: >> /tmp: optimization changed from TIME to SPACE >> I'm not sure what this means? > > It means your /tmp partition is getting full. > When there is plenty of space, the system writes files very quickly, > with little regard for minor amounts of space being wasted. When the > disk fills up, the system switches to SPACE optimization, which makes > saves take longer, but is much less likely to waste any space. > Either delete some files, or get a larger partition for /tmp. With > /tmp, it's very likely that there are a lot of files in there that > could be deleted. > > -- Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com Thank you for the clarification. I have a script running to delete files in the /tmp directory that I will change to run more often. Do I need to do anything to change the optimization back to time? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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