From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 25 02:57:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA21487 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 02:57:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA21480 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 02:57:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA89188; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:57:02 GMT Message-ID: <365BE27E.D1BA3464@tdx.co.uk> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:57:02 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Brown CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /kernel: /home: optimization changed from SPACE to TIME References: <365BDDA0.D1B461B0@netlink.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom Brown wrote: > > Hi, > When I got in this morning my "big brother" administration software ( > http://MacLawran.ca/bb-dnld/ -- highly recomended !!) flagged this > message for my attention, I have searched the archives for information > and can't find anything about this message does anyone have any ideas. > > Thank you for your time, Check the amount of space you have on your /home partition - when space gets low the system switches from optimizing writes for 'time' to for 'space' (as space is at a premium). This will slow your file system down, and is generally 'a bad thing'... See how much space you've got free - and if it's getting low - free some up... Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message