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From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Subject: Re: an easy (?) question on namecache sizing
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You seem to be proposing several approaches. One is to make
wantfreevnodes bigger (half or three-quarters of the maximum).
Another seems to be reverting to the previous (freevnodes >= wantfreevnodes
&& numvnodes >= minvnodes). So what is your proposed change? 

	Kirk McKusick