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From: munir@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Munir Mallal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: minfree, inodes
Message-ID: <17780009@hpfcmgw.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Feb 91 22:24:34 GMT
References: <1991Feb08.161751.13172@eye.com>
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
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   >500M (and more) disks can waste a lot more space.  The minfree is supposed
   >to be for root recovery space AND performance, but when we use
   >"-m 5" we see no NOTICEABLE performance degradation.  And in a trade show,
   >you know somebody is watching your performance CLOSELY.  We'd rather have 
   >the space for one or two extra demos sets.

I would add that since trade shows are usually short lived, your file system
is unlikely to become fragmented. The performance part of the 10% is intended
to allow the disk allocation routines a good chance of getting contiguous 
blocks for your files.  You should not see any degradation until your file
system is quite full and has been in use for some time.

Munir Mallal

Disclaimer:  The above is my opinion and does not represent endorsement 
             by Hewlett-Packard or anyone else.