From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jul 7 10:53:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBCAA37C241 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:53:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA06144; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 19:52:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Bill Fumerola , Alfred Perlstein , Marius Bendiksen , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alterations to vops In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jul 2000 08:43:22 PDT." <200007071543.IAA00597@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 19:52:49 +0200 Message-ID: <6142.962992369@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200007071543.IAA00597@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writ es: > Ahhhhh. We're waiting with baited breath! > > If setting vmiodirenable helps then what's probably happening is > that the buffer cache's malloc space is being blown away by all > the path lookups (due to the reading of all the directories). Actually, come to think of it, I wonder if V_SHOULDFREE prefers directory vnodes because their (vp)->v_object->resident_page_count is zero ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message