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From: bdale@col.hp.com (Bdale Garbee)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: tuning number of inodes for cnews
Message-ID: <18240001@col.hp.com>
Date: 13 Mar 91 20:25:29 GMT
References: <1991Mar1.230651.4574@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU>
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>NB: If you're using a partition solely for /usr/spool/news, you might use
>tunefs to decrease the amount of space held for root. The default is 10%, and
>the manual suggests that a reasonable value would be 3% beyond which
>performance starts to degrade.

We routinely use 5% minfree and inode/8k for routine filesystems under HP-UX
(which is very BSD-ish filesystem wise).  For our C News filesystem, we are
using 5% minfree with inode/2k, and that seems about right.

Bdale