From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Feb 25 10:53:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEABB37B404 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:53:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0418.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.163] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16fQF9-0000Qc-00; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:53:00 -0800 Message-ID: <3C7A87FE.6A02E830@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:52:46 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Seigo Tanimura , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Seigo Tanimura Subject: Re: reclaiming v_data of free vnodes References: <200202231556.g1NFu9N9040749@silver.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <200202242041.g1OKfXt95731@apollo.backplane.com> <200202250325.g1P3PVN9092431@silver.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <200202250444.g1P4i8X29005@apollo.backplane.com> <200202251437.g1PEb12R001419@bunko> <3C7A5D24.E11A6693@mindspring.com> <200202251754.g1PHsTs50126@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Seigo Tanimura wrote: > :> One question before increasing kern.vm.kmem.size: why does ffs not use > :> the zone allocator for inodes? > : > :It doesn't need to, so it doesn't. > > I supose it could. It doesn't for historical reasons and also probably > because the size of an 'inode' depends on the filesystem. How many new > zones do you want to wind up with? It doesn't because it's a bad idea to precommit KVA space when there isn't an architectural requirement for it. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message