Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 09:14:45 -0500 From: Raul Zighelboim <mango@staff.communique.net> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: kern.maxvnodes and systat -v Message-ID: <A03CD00C69B1D01195AB00A024ECEB161E3180@kaori.Communique.Net>
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Is there a way I can increase the # of Kbytes fro buffers ? Thanks. > `buf' gives the number of Kbytes for buffers. It has nothing to do > with > kern.maxvnodes. > > The kern.maxvnodes sysctl is somewhat broken in all versions of > FreeBSD. > In all released versions, it changes a limit on the number of vnodes > but not the size of the namecache hash table. This isn't much of a > problem in practice. In some old unreleased versions, kern.maxvnodes > was readonly. In -current, changing the variable behind > kern.maxvnodes > (desirevnodes) is a no-op (desiredvnodes no longer has anything to do > with vnodes; it is only used to size the namecache hash table, and > this > table is initialized before the kern.maxvnode sysctl can be executed). > > Bruce
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