Re: Filesystem tuning parameters

2003-01-24 Thread Bill Moran
Kevin Stevens wrote: On Friday, Jan 24, 2003, at 16:40 US/Pacific, Bill Moran wrote: See /usr/share/doc/papers/diskperf.ascii.gz on your system. This is the authoritative resource as to why those settings are they way they are. ?? Sure that's the correct doc? It involves throughput tests

Re: Filesystem tuning parameters

2003-01-24 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Friday, Jan 24, 2003, at 16:40 US/Pacific, Bill Moran wrote: See /usr/share/doc/papers/diskperf.ascii.gz on your system. This is the authoritative resource as to why those settings are they way they are. ?? Sure that's the correct doc? It involves throughput tests of different disk syst

Re: Filesystem tuning parameters

2003-01-24 Thread Bill Moran
Kevin Stevens wrote: Also, why is "up to a factor of three in throughput" lost over the 10% setting? Is that another allusion to space optimization going into effect, or is there something else happening? I guess I don't understand the ramifications of the minfree setting. Any suggestions or re

Re: Filesystem tuning parameters

2003-01-24 Thread Craig Reyenga
PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 19:03 Subject: Filesystem tuning parameters > I have a confusion about apparent conflicts between the minfree setting > and time/space optimization. > > Per the manpage: > minfree - > Specify the percentage of space held back from nor

Filesystem tuning parameters

2003-01-24 Thread Kevin Stevens
I have a confusion about apparent conflicts between the minfree setting and time/space optimization. Per the manpage: minfree - Specify the percentage of space held back from normal users; the minimum free space threshold. The default value used is 8%. This value can be set to zero, however up to