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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 22:19:37 -0400
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your are right, the manual page should give you a hint.
5% is probably a good choice.

The "no space left" sounds like venti is not detecting your arenas.
you might try
	hget http://yourmachine/storage
to get a dump of what the venti server thinks it has for storage.

hope this helps
seanq

Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan wrote:
>
> > I used regular files to try venti and did just like the example in the man
> > page says.
> >
> > I faced 2 problems. The man page says what should be the size of the index
> i meant, the man page doesnt say a reasonable file size for the index file.
>
> > file nor the utility takes a default value (in contrast, fmtarenas takes a
> > default value). For 512MB arena file, what should be the sie of the index
> > file? I created two 50MB files. Am I right?
> >
> > Next, after doing all the steps given in the example, I tried to do 'vac'
> on
> > a directory. It said like "no space left". I tried to vac a small file.
> > Still the same problem.
> >
> > Any clues?
> >
> > Thanks
> > dharani