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Date:      Fri, 7 Jul 2000 08:09:34 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org>
Cc:        Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Alterations to vops
Message-ID:  <20000707080934.I25571@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000706223150.A24949@klapaucius.zer0.org>; from gsutter@zer0.org on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 10:31:50PM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007062327020.68909-100000@login-1.eunet.no> <200007070143.SAA96248@apollo.backplane.com> <20000706184859.C25571@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000706223150.A24949@klapaucius.zer0.org>

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* Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org> [000706 22:32] wrote:
> On 2000-07-06 18:48 -0700, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> wrote:
> > 
> > just a note:
> >   sysctl -w vfs.vmiodirenable=1
> > helps a _lot_.
> 
> Could you explain what this does?  Don't say "use the source"; I
> looked and still have no idea.  :)  Thanks.

Directory blocks aren't malloc'd anymore, instead they are taken
from the pagecache which gives a _lot_ more room to cache things.

The only problem is that for the "average case" you waste nearly
3.5k per directory cached, so it's only really a win on systems
with large amounts of ram.

-Alfred


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