Subject: Re: System running out of vnodes
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: J Chapman Flack <flack@cs.purdue.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/25/2005 10:44:12
> There is some kind of serious bug here.  Things should run slower if you
> fill up the vnode table, but they should still run -- the table should be
> managed by LRU.

Hmm...  I have a setup with a pile of null and union mounts, and I wound up
doubling kern.maxvnodes (some months ago, in 1.6 at first) so I would stop
getting failures.  I assumed that was Just The Way It Is and didn't keep
details of the failures.

-Chap