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Date:      Sat, 15 Jul 2000 19:51:17 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Duane Wessels <wessels@ircache.net>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [kern/19479] Re: vnode/inode starvation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007151949000.26012-100000@login-1.eunet.no>
In-Reply-To: <20000715153918.B22865@ywing.creative.net.au>

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> Hrm, if I remember right, you said this is fixed in 4.0, right?

The PR is at least still open and untouched.

> The problem Duane was seeing felt more like something not properly
> releasing vnodes, causing them to pile up rather than being recycled.

I know. This was merely a long shot at trying to avoid having to do a more
complex analysis of the problem, based on the fact that the "ffsvgt" state
is used to denote waiting for the lock to resolve.

> I haven't got any comments on the above patch except that if you have
> a lot of busy filesystems which constantly create/delete inodes then
> it should speed things up a little ..

*nod*. As well as not waking up swapped-out processes.

Marius



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