Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:16:05 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Tom Brown <tomb@netlink.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /kernel: /home: optimization changed from SPACE to TIME Message-ID: <365BE6F5.56F28581@tdx.co.uk> References: <365BDDA0.D1B461B0@netlink.co.uk> <365BE27E.D1BA3464@tdx.co.uk>
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Karl Pielorz 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. > > 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'... Hmmm... This looks a little backwards to me now - but you get the idea... (Looking at your original message it looks like it was infact going from 'SPACE' (which is bad) to 'TIME' which is good... Maybe it's not so low on space... :-) -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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