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Date:      Fri, 29 Mar 1996 10:54:45 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_object.c 
Message-ID:  <199603291854.KAA02630@Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:51:07 GMT." <199603291151.LAA01479@tees> 

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>In reply to David Greenman who said
>> 
>> davidg      96/03/28 22:30:20
>> 
>>   Branch:      sys/vm    RELENG_2_1_0
>>   Modified:    sys/vm    vm_object.c
>>   Log:
>>   Revert to previous calculation of vm_object_cache_max: it simply works
>>   better in most real-world cases. This comes after extensive analysis of
>>   file caching behavior on wcarchive...
>
>Is wcarchive really that good a platform for deciding what good generic
>solutions are? Very few of us run wcarchive's.

   You should not infer from the above that wcarchive is the *only* data
point I use to determine the proper setting of this parameter. That would
be far from the truth.
   Both the previous and current settings of vm_object_cache max are
satisfactory for standard use of FreeBSD. vm_object_cache_max sets the
limit on the total number of files that may be cached in the system. It
only becomes a factor on systems with large amounts of memory and lots
of file activity. I had previously increased it because I thought that
it wasn't large enough for big systems like wcarchive. I was wrong so
now I'm changing it back.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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