From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Mar 28 17:49: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from green.bikeshed.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B26E37B404; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:49:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by green.bikeshed.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2T1n2r06394; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:49:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from green@green.bikeshed.org) Message-Id: <200203290149.g2T1n2r06394@green.bikeshed.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Kirk McKusick , Terry Lambert , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vnode::v_op bugfix / PERFORCE change 8574 for review (fwd) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:00:30 EST." From: "Brian F. Feldman" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:49:02 -0500 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 Garance A Drosihn wrote: > 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? It's not likely to happen, I imagine, but I'd rather to make it "impossible" to happen rather than just not likely. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org <> bfeldman@tislabs.com \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message