Subject: Re: new memory allocation scheme and disk access
To: Kouichirou Hiratsuka <hira@po6.nsk.ne.jp>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
List: current-users
Date: 01/03/2004 12:31:26
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On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:26:38AM +0900, Kouichirou Hiratsuka wrote:
  | My system has 1G bytes RAM and free memory was about 550M bytes at
  | the time of second build of the kernel. But it was very slow by hard
  | disk accesses. It seems to be related with new memory allocation
  | scheme for the buffer cache.

What is
	sysctl kern.maxvnodes
on your system?

If it's < 50000, have you tried
	sysctl -w kern.maxvnodes=131072
(or even 262144 or larger again) ?

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