From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jul 7 10:18: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D4C637BFED for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:18:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e67HI0h18354; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:18:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:18:00 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Chris Richards Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alterations to vops Message-ID: <20000707101800.O25571@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200007070143.SAA96248@apollo.backplane.com> <20000706184859.C25571@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000706223150.A24949@klapaucius.zer0.org> <20000707080934.I25571@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000707114411.A31035@wso.williams.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000707114411.A31035@wso.williams.edu>; from crichard-freebsd@wso.williams.edu on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 11:44:11AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Chris Richards [000707 09:24] wrote: > On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 08:09:34AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > 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. > > In your estimation, how large is "large"? Of course each site should > test to see what best suits its needs, but I'm looking for a rough > idea. You'll want to not drop the CC: when replying to me or I can miss the mail. It's really dependant on the system, a rough guess would be anything above 128 megs. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message