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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Sitaram Iyer <ssiyer@cs.rice.edu>
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: name cache size
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* Sitaram Iyer <ssiyer@cs.rice.edu> [000702 12:32] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> for the purposes of an experiment, how can I increase the size of freebsd's
> name cache? Currently, find -type f on a tree with more than 40,000 files
> refuses to cache the results, and increasing desiredvnodes and the size of
> nchashtbl didn't seem to help. (4.0-RELEASE, with maxusers=512).
> 
> thanks in advance,
> 
> (should this have gone to -questions instead? wasn't sure..)

Try this:

sysctl -w vfs.vmiodirenable=1

-Alfred


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