On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 04:44:48AM -0800, Chuck Silvers wrote:

 > we'd also like to be able to do write clustering for small writes such as
 > those produced by stdio.  if we do an async flush for each write syscall,
 > we'll end up doing a disk write for each syscall, which will perform
 > pretty badly.

Yah.

 > one thing we could do instead that might help is to kick off an async
 > flush when a vnode goes inactive.  that could help out in cases like
 > creating a bunch of small files.  I haven't tried it yet though.

expn "inactive" ... like when "usecount" goes to 0?

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