From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 25 15:32:29 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA09358 for current-outgoing; Sat, 25 Feb 1995 15:32:29 -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 PAA09350 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 1995 15:32:27 -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 AAA01655 ; Sun, 26 Feb 1995 00:30:39 +0100 Received: by blaise.ibp.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09396; Sun, 26 Feb 95 00:30:38 +0100 From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Message-Id: <9502252330.AA09396@blaise.ibp.fr> Subject: Re: Decrease in namei cache effectiveness? To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 00:30:37 +0100 (MET) Cc: starkhome!gene@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199502241839.FAA02024@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 25, 95 05:39:45 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: 570 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > by preferring to reuse vnodes with no attached buffers. Before > 1995/02/22, this increased the maximum amount of directory and metadata > info by a factor of about 10. I want it to be increased by another > factor of 10. John's last commit to vfs_bio.c restored part of the old behaviour but not all. Even with 20 MB RAM I keep on seeing the disk going berseck during stats. Less often than before but its still there. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD keltia 2.1.0-Development #9: Sat Feb 18 19:21:00 MET 1995