Re: Default minfree performance restrictions?

1999-12-22 Thread Ryan Thompson
Hi, Mark, Thanks for the reply. On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Mark Newton wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 07:25:39PM -0600, Ryan Thompson wrote: > > The idea has merit, but you might need to increase the size of your > cylinder groups to compensate if you lower the MINFREE threshhold which > invokes s

Re: Default minfree performance restrictions?

1999-12-22 Thread Mark Newton
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 07:25:39PM -0600, Ryan Thompson wrote: > Hmm... Since I didn't get a single reply to this one, am I to assume that > you all think I'm nuts, and should be publicly flogged with a copy of > Greg's book for even thinking such foolish thoughts? :-) The idea has merit, bu

Re: Default minfree performance restrictions?

1999-12-22 Thread Ryan Thompson
Hmm... Since I didn't get a single reply to this one, am I to assume that you all think I'm nuts, and should be publicly flogged with a copy of Greg's book for even thinking such foolish thoughts? :-) Or... Maybe most of the more knowledgeable individuals who follow this list are just gone for t

Default minfree performance restrictions?

1999-12-20 Thread Ryan Thompson
Hello all, After creating some larger slices than I'm used to, I finally felt the full force of a default 8% minfree setting. So, I went to tunefs(8) to try and put a damper on the multiple gigabytes that aren't being made available to users. However, I was a bit disappointed to note that setti