From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 28 19:20:57 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C4D9B7F; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 19:20:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mckusick@mckusick.com) Received: from chez.mckusick.com (chez.mckusick.com [IPv6:2001:5a8:4:7e72:4a5b:39ff:fe12:452]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ED7882118; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 19:20:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from chez.mckusick.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chez.mckusick.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r7SJKqQJ021893; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:20:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mckusick@chez.mckusick.com) Message-Id: <201308281920.r7SJKqQJ021893@chez.mckusick.com> To: Ivan Voras Subject: Re: Call fo comments - raising vfs.ufs.dirhash_reclaimage? In-reply-to: Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:20:52 -0700 From: Kirk McKusick Cc: freebsd-fs X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 19:20:57 -0000 I am in favor of your change to increase reclaimage from 5 to 60 seconds. As you note, the cost is small and when applicable, the benefits are large. You are also correct that most system adminsitrators do not know about these tuning knobs, so do not use them. We should do our best to auto-tune and set sensible defaults. Kirk McKusick