From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Mar 28 17: 1: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A762C37B417; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:01:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2T10VuW503694; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:00:31 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200203282327.g2SNRog05733@green.bikeshed.org> References: <200203282327.g2SNRog05733@green.bikeshed.org> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:00:30 -0500 To: "Brian F. Feldman" , Kirk McKusick From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: vnode::v_op bugfix / PERFORCE change 8574 for review (fwd) Cc: Terry Lambert , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 At 6:27 PM -0500 3/28/02, Brian F. Feldman wrote: >Kirk McKusick wrote: > > I concur with your suggestion below that the new patch > > is a better approach. Your ideal solution below sounds > > reasonable though I have not thought it through completely. > >I really, really hate the idea that the machine will panic >without warning if the number of vnode ops to be used >becomes greather than the statically-defined limit. Isn't >there some truly generic solution? A previous message said new vnode-ops are very rare. I do not know what would trigger them, but I will note that one of the things I can brag about with freebsd is that I have a freebsd machine running a production service here which has now been up for 437 consecutive days. Are these events rare enough that I would never have to worry about ending an uptime-streak because of too many of them? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message