From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 31 20:43:29 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 5789F16A4CE for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:43:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-222-46-91.eastlink.ca [24.222.46.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF74143D2F for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:43:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AC5FD35AA7; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:43:28 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A491B3575D for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:43:28 -0300 (ADT) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:43:28 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040831174117.S31538@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: free/flushing vnodes ... 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: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:43:29 -0000 I have a server that currently is hitting its limit of vnodes: Aug 31 17:33:01 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 519920 - debug.freevnodes: 9256 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 253542 - vlrup Aug 31 17:34:00 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 519920 - debug.freevnodes: 9110 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 253561 - vlrup Aug 31 17:35:02 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 519920 - debug.freevnodes: 8668 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 253580 - vlrup Aug 31 17:36:00 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 519920 - debug.freevnodes: 8862 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 253600 - vlrup Aug 31 17:37:00 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 519920 - debug.freevnodes: 8661 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 253619 - vlrup Aug 31 17:38:00 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 519920 - debug.freevnodes: 9001 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 253638 - vlrup Aug 31 17:39:00 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 519920 - debug.freevnodes: 9075 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 253657 - vlrup Aug 31 17:40:01 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 519920 - debug.freevnodes: 9119 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 253677 - vlrup Aug 31 17:41:00 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 519920 - debug.freevnodes: 9457 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 253696 - vlrup Aug 31 17:42:00 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 519920 - debug.freevnodes: 9221 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 253715 - vlrup Its been up for 25 days now ... is there a way of 'flushing' vnodes? for instance, if I were to shut down all of the processes on the machine, is therer something like 'sync' that I could run that would flush all the vnodes before starting up the processes again? Without doing a reboot? Thanks ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664