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



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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