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Hi Scott,

Scott Long wrote on Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:38:29PM -0600:
[..]
> Look at kern.maxvnodes and trim is down to a smaller amount if it's more
> than about 100,000.  This of course depends on your workload.  If you
> really need a lot of cached vnodes, then you'll need to tune elsewhere.
[..]

I was set to some value > 200000. I trimmed it down to 64000.
Caches vnodes help if I access many different files concurrently?

The machine hosts a heavy loaded ftp server, but I guess 200000
is a very very high value. Is there some way to check the 
vnode cache utilization? Maybe with vmstat -m ....

Thanks,
 Daniel
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