From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 6 17:55:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2B1A16A424 for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 17:55:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryans@gamersimpact.com) Received: from mailserv1.neuroflux.com (ns2.neuroflux.com [204.228.228.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D552743D49 for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 17:55:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryans@gamersimpact.com) Received: (qmail 28865 invoked by uid 1003); 6 Aug 2005 17:55:49 -0000 Received: from ryans@gamersimpact.com by mailserv1.neuroflux.com by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (clamscan: 0.65. spamassassin: 2.60. Clear:RC:1(63.229.214.54):. Processed in 1.345341 secs); 06 Aug 2005 17:55:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (63.229.214.54) by mailserv1.neuroflux.com with SMTP; 6 Aug 2005 17:55:47 -0000 Message-ID: <42F4F979.7080705@gamersimpact.com> Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 12:55:05 -0500 From: Ryan Sommers User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Colin Percival References: <42F47C0D.2020704@freebsd.org> <20050806112118.GA7708@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20050806143812.GA76296@over-yonder.net> <42F4F446.90304@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <42F4F446.90304@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: /usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 17:55:08 -0000 Colin Percival wrote: > Your "rather oldish and rather smallish" /var is four times the default > size used in sysinstall (256MB is used for /, /tmp, and /var if you have > a large enough drive). This default results in having ~32000 inodes. > > I wonder if it's time to increase the default size of /var again. I would agree, even without portsnap. With things like MySQL using /var/db (if I remember) as the default it might be a way to avoid a few more mails to questions@ without impacting the normal user. Hard drives are pennies to the GB and always getting cheaper; I've been making 1-5gb /var's for awhile even on non-database servers just to have a little more wiggle room for logs. As a side note, I've always wished we had a selectable list of "auto" configure options, database server, web-server, minimalist, etc. -- Ryan Sommers ryans@gamersimpact.com