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Date:      Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:46:13 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
To:        Andy Hilker <ah@crypta.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.2-RELEASE crash
Message-ID:  <401BE9E5.5050200@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040131173409.GA79338@mail.crypta.net>
References:  <20040130124818.T2246@gandalf.midgard.liu.se> <20040131003843.I10185@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> <401BD9D6.7020904@freebsd.org> <20040131173409.GA79338@mail.crypta.net>

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Andy Hilker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
>>Also, the scaling of kern.maxvnodes doesn't work very well.  On a large
>>memory system, it will typically set this to 200,000-300,000.  If you
>>don't need this many, then it is easier to just crank it down to a more
>>reasonable level than fiddle with the KMEM parameters.
> 
> 
> And what is reasonable level or how i determine it? :)
> 
> Andy
> 

Look at what you are doing with your system.  If you're serving a 
high-traffic website with hundreds of thousands of files, you might not
want to lower the maxvnode limit.  If you're only dealing with a small
working set of files that only spikes occasionally, lowering the limit
is probably a good thing.

Scott



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