Re: [RAIDframe] system hangs while manipulating large files

["Emile `iMil' Heitor" <imil%home.imil.net@localhost>]

Hi Greg,

> Any particular reason why you set minfree to 0 instead of leaving it at
> the default?  Especially given that the man-page for tunefs says:

Just because that volume is dedicated in storing media and stuff, no need to
reserve space for root, and hey, 5% of 4T is a lot :\

> 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 5%
> threshold.

hm, I missed that point. Will raise up.

> Losing a factor of 3 in throughput in addition to the RAID5 write
> penalty seems pretty expensive, performance-wise :(  (You might also
> get better write performance with '64 1 1 5' in this configuration,
> instead of '32 1 1 5')

Noted, will definitely try.

Thanks for the replies!

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