On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 06:26:45PM -0600, Stephen M. Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 06:14:29PM -0600, Stephen M. Jones wrote:
> > > I've experienced vnlock deadlockish behaviour twice today since increase
> > > kern.maxvnodes to ~25% (250000) of system memory (1GB).  Both clients
> > 
> > I would not expect increasing the total number of vnodes to solve a
> > problem caused by a locking bug.
> 
> Is it a locking bug though?  Are vnodes not being reclaimed because
> there is a locking bug?  Are new vnodes not being allocated because
> there are none to be had? 

Vnodes are recycled.  You're almost certainly looking at some kind of
locking or synchronization bug.

Thor