From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 9 17:58:28 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B733C16A421 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 17:58:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from smtp4-g19.free.fr (smtp4-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B17E13C447 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 17:58:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (bne75-4-82-227-159-103.fbx.proxad.net [82.227.159.103]) by smtp4-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD496F449; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 19:58:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from diversion.herbelot.nom (diversion.herbelot.nom [192.168.2.6]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l69HwGsn003765; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 19:58:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Thierry Herbelot To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 19:58:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200707071426.18202.dfr@rabson.org> <20070709000918.GD1208@garage.freebsd.pl> <200707090848.50190.dfr@rabson.org> In-Reply-To: <200707090848.50190.dfr@rabson.org> X-Warning: Windows can lose your files X-Op-Sys: Le FriBi de la mort qui tue X-Org: TfH&Co X-MailScanner: Found to be clean MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707091958.10023.thierry@herbelot.com> Cc: Pawel Jakub Dawidek Subject: Re: ZFS leaking vnodes (sort of) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: thierry@herbelot.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:58:28 -0000 Le Monday 09 July 2007, Doug Rabson a écrit : > I think it should help the memory usage problems - for one thing since > the vnodes were never hitting the free list, VOP_INACTIVE wasn't being > properly called on then after last-close which (I think) is supposed to > flush out various things. Not quite sure about that bit. Certainly it > reduces the number of active vnodes in the system back down to the > wantfreevnodes value. At least, here, on a very old and very small machine, with a pair of obsolete IDE disks, the three changes you suggested improve buildworld by around 30% (18hrs -> 14hrs) Thanks TfH