Re: Problem with lots of (perhaps too much?) memory

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 17 May 2017, J. Hannken-Illjes wrote:

> > > - What is the size of your vnode cache (sysctl kern.maxvnodes)?
> >
> > kern.maxvnodes = 6706326
>
> What happens if you lower it to 1258268 for example?

vdrain kicks in almost immediately.  ioflush continues to run.  and I 
still have only 80MB free memory (according to top)

(This is with a build.sh -j 20 running in the background...)



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