From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 13 10:51:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5993B16A4CE for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:51:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8850C43D46 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:51:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from turbo23@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 27250 invoked by uid 65534); 13 Mar 2004 18:46:17 -0000 Received: from 253.catv107.lgt01.lan.ch (EHLO gmx.net) (62.204.107.253) by mail.gmx.net (mp009) with SMTP; 13 Mar 2004 19:46:17 +0100 X-Authenticated: #627573 Message-ID: <4053584A.8030408@gmx.net> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 19:51:54 +0100 From: Thomas Vogt User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5b (Windows/20040215) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: performance with less than 8% minfree X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 18:51:25 -0000 Hi FreeBSD 4.9 man tunefs(8) explains in section "-m minfree" that by default, 8% disk space is reserved for root. The man page also says clearly that I'll lose performance if I reduce minfree. My mailserver has one drive for the base system and a raid enviroment with 500GB space for the users mailboxes. 8% of 500gb space is a lot of space which I can't use anymore for my users mailboxes. So if I set this minfree to < 8% is there any other option I have to set that I don't lose too much performance. We're talking about a lot of write procedures for small files. regards Thomas Vogt