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

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

On Wed, 17 May 2017, Paul Goyette wrote:

> 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...)

Correction for the free memory comment - there is 89G Free.  The 80M 
refers to Inact Memory


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