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To: Geoff Mohler <gemohler@tgn2.tgn.net>
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Subject: Re: Namei cache? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Dec 1997 11:27:53 CST."
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 19:55:35 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.91.971209112556.20195A-100000@tgn2.tgn.net>, Geoff Mohle
r writes:
>Did there used to be a directive for configuring the kernel to hav a 
>large(r) namei cache?
>
>I thought I saw this around 2.1.5 (or so) in the LINT file, and it really 
>beefed up the speed of my INN server.
>
>Ive got my CCD running great at 64k interleave, with -i2048 -c16 as flags 
>to newfs.
>
>Im just wondering where that one directive went off to.

In current there is little you can do.

You can try to increase:

	kern.maxvnodes
	debug.wantfreevnodes

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."