From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 18:17:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95F7116A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:17:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from webmail.speakeasy.net (webmail2.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 681BD43D2F for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:17:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cscott@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 10332 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2004 18:17:24 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO webmail2) ([127.0.0.1]) (envelope-sender ) by localhost (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 8 Nov 2004 18:17:24 -0000 Received: from 199.181.134.212 (unverified [199.181.134.212]) by webmail2 (VisualMail 4.0) with WEBMAIL id 3966; Mon, 08 Nov 2004 18:17:23 +0000 From: cscott@speakeasy.net To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Importance: Normal Sensitivity: Normal Message-ID: X-Mailer: Mintersoft VisualMail, Build 4.0.111601 X-Originating-IP: [199.181.134.212] Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 18:17:23 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Filesystem buffer size X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 18:17:25 -0000 I have a server thats sole purpose for existence is serving a fixed group= of files from a dedicated filesystem. There is a directory tree with abo= ut 50K files that is requested in a random order. I have been trying find= the correct sysctl variable to dedicate more RAM to the filesystem buffe= r to reduce the latency in the server caused by the FS reads. Is there su= ch a variable? What is the variable I should be working with? vfs.maxbufs= pace is read-only. TIA Casey