[881] in testers
Re: SAVECORE and afs cache size
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri May 25 07:08:56 1990
From: raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: Richard Basch <probe@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 25 May 90 00:31:41 -0400.
Date: Fri, 25 May 90 07:08:36 EDT
In case it escaped notice the first time, I was suggesting limiting the cache
size to 1 (any small value would do) only for a short period during the boot
process. After savecore is run, the cache size would be set back to
approximately its original value in all cases except when you got a crash dump,
in which case you probably do want the smaller cache size.
AFS may have been fixed to not exceed the cache size, but will it recover
gracefully when it fills the partition? Will it back down and leave a little
free space for /tmp use?
Sure, logging in and doing work with a cache size of 1 would hurt. I never
suggested doing it. I don't think it will hurt that much to have to re-fill the
cache after rebooting....
