From owner-freebsd-fs Sat Jul 15 10:51:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F82F37C730; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 10:51:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id TAA63947; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 19:51:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA26068; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 19:51:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 19:51:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Adrian Chadd Cc: Duane Wessels , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [kern/19479] Re: vnode/inode starvation In-Reply-To: <20000715153918.B22865@ywing.creative.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message