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Date:      Sat, 30 Oct 2010 01:24:26 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r214544 - stable/8/share/man/man7
Message-ID:  <201010300124.o9U1OQ87073220@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: kib
Date: Sat Oct 30 01:24:26 2010
New Revision: 214544
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/214544

Log:
  MFC r213917:
  Document vfs.ncsizefactor and vfs.ncnegfactor.

Modified:
  stable/8/share/man/man7/tuning.7
Directory Properties:
  stable/8/share/man/man7/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/8/share/man/man7/tuning.7
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/share/man/man7/tuning.7	Sat Oct 30 01:19:15 2010	(r214543)
+++ stable/8/share/man/man7/tuning.7	Sat Oct 30 01:24:26 2010	(r214544)
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd January 23, 2009
+.Dd October 16, 2010
 .Dt TUNING 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -511,6 +511,24 @@ Also,
 higher write queueing values may add latency to reads occurring at the same
 time.
 .Pp
+The
+.Va vfs.ncsizefactor
+sysctl defines how large VFS namecache may grow.
+The number of currently allocated entries in namecache is provided by
+.Va debug.numcache
+sysctl and the condition
+debug.numcache < kern.maxvnodes * vfs.ncsizefactor
+is adhered to.
+.Pp
+The
+.Va vfs.ncnegfactor
+sysctl defines how many negative entries VFS namecache is allowed to create.
+The number of currently allocated negative entries is provided by
+.Va debug.numneg
+sysctl and the condition
+vfs.ncnegfactor * debug.numneg < debug.numcache
+is adhered to.
+.Pp
 There are various other buffer-cache and VM page cache related sysctls.
 We do not recommend modifying these values.
 As of



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