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Subject: Re: NFS_SMALLFH 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 14:29:43 -0800
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>What determines that structures greater than 256 bytes constitutes
>bloat?  Is this specific to NFS?

   On systems that do lots of NFS, there can easily be many thousand nfsnode
structs in use. An extra 256 bytes per struct can result in megabytes of
wasted memory.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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