From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 29 8:42:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0A4C1592A for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:40:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA35112; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 09:40:30 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id JAA03116; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 09:40:26 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199909291540.JAA03116@harmony.village.org> To: Ville-Pertti Keinonen Subject: Re: just found this Cc: current@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "29 Sep 1999 10:45:16 +0300." <867lla5fg2.fsf@not.demophon.com> References: <867lla5fg2.fsf@not.demophon.com> <199909282101.PAA06277@harmony.village.org.newsgate.clinet.fi> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 09:40:26 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <867lla5fg2.fsf@not.demophon.com> Ville-Pertti Keinonen writes: : It isn't in -current, does this mean that it wasn't considered an : acceptable long-term solution? It wasn't a problem in -current due to a different way that things were done there. : Really large numbers of hardlinks are probably rare enough, but the : default limit of 4 seems a bit low, it should probably be at least as : high as the maximum link count encountered on a normal installation. : There are other ways to hold down at least as much memory per file you : can keep open as with the limit of 4. I think phk's idea in this area are likely the best way to deal. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message