Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: source-changes
Date: 10/21/2000 15:20:33
On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 02:30:58AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <200010202158.AAA00434@netbsd.hut.fi>,
> Todd Vierling <tv@netbsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > Add a little gdb script to switch off FFS clustering. This avoids
> > buffer cache lockups in INSTALL_TINY (it has very little buffers
> > to spare). This is the least intrusive way of fixing that.
> > 
> maybe that should be a sysctl?

I think it's already:
rochebonne#/usr/src/1.5F/src/sys.old/dev/ic>sysctl vfs.ffs
vfs.ffs.doclusterread = 1
vfs.ffs.doclusterwrite = 1
vfs.ffs.doreallocblks = 0
vfs.ffs.doasyncfree = 1
vfs.ffs.log_changeopt = 0

But we may not have sysctl on the INSTALL_TINY floppy.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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