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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnews!adh
  3. From: adh@cbnews.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
  4. Subject: Re: Reducing minfree on big disks
  5. Organization: AT&T
  6. Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:11:44 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <1992Dec15.131144.18228@cbnews.cb.att.com>
  8. References: <1992Dec14.135852.5413@netnews.whoi.edu>
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  11. In article <1992Dec14.135852.5413@netnews.whoi.edu> dhiltz@whsun1.wh.whoi.edu writes:
  12. "The "tunefs" man page says, "..the minfree value can be set to
  13. "zero, however up to a factor of three in throughput will be 
  14. "lost over the performance obtained at a 10% threshold."  Why?
  15.  
  16. because the optimization is forced to 'space', whereas the default for
  17. 10% and above is 'time'.
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  20. Andrew Hay    |    one step beyond the outer limits of the twilight       |
  21. a_d_hay@att.com    |    zone in the darkened room at the night gallery           |
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