From owner-cvs-all Mon Oct 15 13:36:20 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB4D37B407; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:36:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 1156681D01; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:36:06 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:36:06 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Ian Dowse Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Matt Dillon , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vnode_pager.c Message-ID: <20011015153606.F59854@elvis.mu.org> References: <200110152105.aa38680@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200110152105.aa38680@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>; from iedowse@maths.tcd.ie on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:05:34PM +0100 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Ian Dowse [011015 15:05] wrote: > In message , 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? No, the zone allocator sucks, one memory is pinned for a zone it can not be reused. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message