From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 18 9: 2:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from siscom.net (unknown [209.251.2.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E38A117FD for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:01:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from radams@siscom.net) Received: (qmail 30658 invoked from network); 18 Feb 1999 17:01:59 -0000 Received: from mp.siscom.net (HELO mp) (209.251.2.40) by mail.siscom.net with SMTP; 18 Feb 1999 17:01:59 -0000 Message-ID: <011101be5b60$6af54700$2802fbd1@mp.siscom.net> From: "Robert Adams" To: Subject: newfs Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 12:02:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, Figured I would write and ask suggestions for a newfs I'll be doing: The server will be running 3.1R Running Highwinds Typhoon News Software I have 8x17gig Baracudas I was thinking about doing a "newfs -m0 /dev/da1s1e" etc when I noticed this in "man tunefs" -m minfree Specify the percentage of space held back from normal users; the minimum free space threshold. The default value used is 8%. This value can be set to zero, however up to a factor of three in throughput will be lost over the performance obtained at a 10% threshold. Settings of 5% and less force space optimization to always be used which will greatly increase the overhead for file writes. Note that if the value is raised above the current usage level, users will be unable to allocate files until enough files have been deleted to get under the higher threshold. My questions is this.. since Typhoon makes 9 large (2gig/each) files on the drive (not a lot of small files like INN).. does the above apply? How do you all recommend I newfs the drive for max performance? -Jason --- Robert J. Adams radams@siscom.net http://www.siscom.net Looking to outsource news? http://www.newshosting.com SISCOM Network Administration - President, SISCOM Inc. Phone: 888-4-SISCOM 937-222-8150 FAX: 937-222-8153 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message