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Re: file system overhead

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:29:51 -0700
Message-ID: <1152808525.236244@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


pafr wrote:
> I noticed that there seems to be a 6% overhead when creating file
> systems on Solaris using Veritas volume manager.
> I created a 10 GB filesystem and the df -k and the df -h output appear
> as below:
>
> hostname% df -k /opt/oracle/
> Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
> /dev/vx/dsk/orainstdg/ora-vol01
> 10485760 19038 9812559 1% /tmp/test
>
> hostname% df -h /opt/oracle
> Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
> /dev/vx/dsk/orainstdg/ora-vol01
> 10G 19M 9.4G 1% /tmp/test
>
> The filesystem is not being used and is empty.
>
> As you can see the size of the file system is 10GB the used amount is
> 19MB
> and the amount available is 9.4 GB, so there appears to be 600 MB
> missing.
> I figured this is just the overhead due to the creation of the
> filesystem, but 6% seems very high. If you have any information
> regarding this please respond. Thank you.

Take a look at the CPU overhead of running it too.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
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Received on Thu Jul 13 2006 - 11:29:51 CDT

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