From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jul 6 18:55:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8149037BB83 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 18:55:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DFFA91C64; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 21:55:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 21:55:43 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Matthew Dillon , Marius Bendiksen , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alterations to vops Message-ID: <20000706215543.Z4034@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <200007070143.SAA96248@apollo.backplane.com> <20000706184859.C25571@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000706184859.C25571@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 06:48:59PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 06:48:59PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > What may be happening here is stalling in namei(). find and cvsup > > are very heavy on path lookups and that combined with seek latency > > on the drive could result in filesystem locks on directories being > > held for much longer periods of time then normal. Any other process > > trying to 'open' a file (verses reading or writing an already-open file) > > would start to stall. > > just a note: > sysctl -w vfs.vmiodirenable=1 > helps a _lot_. I'll turn it on and see if that helps. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect / Computer Horizons Corp - CHIMES e-mail: billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message