Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 21:52:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: peter@haywire.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: aargh! How to handle 128 ttys on a system? Message-ID: <199505290452.VAA10803@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.91.950529092152.28077F-100000@haywire.DIALix.COM> from "Peter Wemm" at May 29, 95 11:36:03 am
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> > BTW: Julian: What came over you when you partitioned that drive? > 31 Meg swap space? :-) ?? Sure makes it hard to get a crash dump of a > machine with 32M in it. (I've since found about options "MAXMEM=31000") hey it was a small machine the motherboard only fitted 16MB.. (steal the DOS partition? (I think there may be one)) > > > Oh, also, I restored a '-p' option to tunefs that I had been missing from > my SVR4 machines... On Julian's drive, I see: > > tunefs: maximum contiguous block count: (-a) 1 > tunefs: rotational delay between contiguous blocks: (-d) 4 ms > tunefs: maximum blocks per file in a cylinder group: (-e) 1024 > tunefs: minimum percentage of free space: (-m) 10% > tunefs: optimization preference: (-o) time yeah sorry, I never got around to tuning and let it use defaults.... works a lot better if you lie about the geometry too, and tell the fs it has one head and 2MB/track or do....
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