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In message <199704242059.NAA11021@root.com>, David Greenman writes:

>   I've increased kern.maxvnodes which I think should have the same effect.
>This actually made things worse - a few percent lower cache hit rate. Very
>odd. It might have just been a statistical anomoly. In any case, it definately
>didn't improve the hit rate.

No, it doesn't have the same effect.  You want to change the ratio between
namecache entries and vnodes, not the absolute number.

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