From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 3 01:07:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68AD716A4CF for ; Mon, 3 May 2004 01:07:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF4ED43D39 for ; Mon, 3 May 2004 01:07:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.8p2/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i4386t2A009179; Mon, 3 May 2004 04:06:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20040503080051.GA75981@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <200404301403.50634.past@noc.ntua.gr> <20040430123040.GB30157@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <20040430211948.GC85783@dragon.nuxi.com> <4094F86E.2020908@noc.ntua.gr> <20040502141538.B13B043D54@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20040503080051.GA75981@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 10:04:34 +0200 To: Erik Trulsson From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: Panagiotis Astithas cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG cc: Robin Schoonover Subject: Re: Change default dumpdir to /usr/crash? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 08:07:03 -0000 At 10:00 AM +0200 2004/05/03, Erik Trulsson wrote: > Try that calculation for a machine with 32MB RAM. You probably need a > minimum suggested amount of memory as well for that. Okay, then memory * 1.25, with a minimum of memory + 256MB, and a maximum of memory + 1GB. > A base value + memory size sounds better. As you proved, you need a lower bound of usefulness. But you also need an upper bound, and when it comes to things like logfiles and other things you might want to store in /var, the larger the memory on the system the larger the logfiles, etc... are likely to be. Therefore, a multiplier based on memory is more likely to be useful than simple addition. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. SAGE member since 1995. See for more info.