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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vnode_pager.c 
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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:05:34 +0100
From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
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In message <xzpelo4r90f.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
>No difference.  24 hours' uptime, patch applied and all file systems
>mounted async:
>
>des@des /usr/src% vmstat -m | grep FFS
> 256  UFS mount, FFS node, newblk, IpFw/IpAcct, routetbl, ifaddr, BPF,
>     FFS node 71741 17936K  17938K 85338K  1341645    0     0  256

A silly, but effective workaround for this would be to use the zone
allocator for FFS inodes since it can be set up with no memory
limit (vnodes already use zalloc). The patch would be quite
straightforward - is that worth trying?

Ian

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