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<div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/2 Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>></span><br>
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<div class="im">On Thursday 02 April 2009 07:33:38 Tom Dexter wrote:<br><br>> I'm trying to get an idea of what extra space setting I should use<br>> that, in theory, would allow a "full" system to continue without<br>
> problems. I guess part of that depends on the actual speed of slow<br>> deletes. I don't believe I've ever read exactly what that is, if<br>> someone knows offhand.<br><br></div>I think the answer is zero. A Myth system should expire programs properly in<br>
order to make room for what it needs.<br><br>I think the free space option is for folks who need a certain amount of free<br>space for reasons other than the MythTV system using that partition.<br><br>I could be wrong, but that's how I understand it. If I'm wrong I'd obviously<br>
like to know about it.<br><br>Windows users seem to always want to have large amounts of free space on their<br>drives, for some reason, probably the fact that Windows will run slow(er) if<br>the drives start to get full.<br>
<br>I figure I bought that drive space to be used, not to sit there doing nothing.<br>The same applies to RAM.<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>beww<br><a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a><br></font>
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<div>I don't know about the actual performance impact, but my XFS filesystem has a tendency to get much more fragmented as the available disk space approaches zero...</div>