From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 24 08:52:24 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA20084 for current-outgoing; Fri, 24 Feb 1995 08:52:24 -0800 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA20041 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 1995 08:48:08 -0800 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.10/jtpda-5.0) with SMTP id RAA23119 ; Fri, 24 Feb 1995 17:45:26 +0100 Received: by blaise.ibp.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05148; Fri, 24 Feb 95 17:45:25 +0100 From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Message-Id: <9502241645.AA05148@blaise.ibp.fr> Subject: Re: Decrease in namei cache effectiveness? To: starkhome!gene@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 17:45:25 +0100 (MET) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199502241625.LAA15376@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> from "Gene Stark" at Feb 24, 95 11:25:41 am X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development ctm#375 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23beta2] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 641 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > starting a make world. I stopped it after I noticed that the disk was getting > an incredible pounding during C compilations that previously would be > almost totally CPU-bound. My impression from "systat -vmstat" was that > somehow the effectiveness of the namei cache had gotten drastically reduced, > and the lookups of the names of include files were causing a lot of disk > activity. > > Has anyone else seen this? Same here. Very very slow (I was compiling sendmail, guess why ? :-)) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD keltia 2.1.0-Development #9: Sat Feb 18 19:21:00 MET 1995