Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 21:19:42 -0700 From: David Schultz <das@freebsd.org> To: Masachika ISHIZUKA <ishizuka@ish.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system slowdown - vnode related Message-ID: <20030609041942.GA4029@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20030609.114033.74731601.ishizuka@ish.org> References: <200305280102.LAA00949@lightning.itga.com.au> <20030609.114033.74731601.ishizuka@ish.org>
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On Mon, Jun 09, 2003, Masachika ISHIZUKA wrote: > Hi, David-san. > I have still vnodes problem in 4.8-stable with /sys/kern/vfs_subr.c > 1.249.2.30. > > 310.locate of weekly cron make slow down or panic. Values of sysctl > are shown as follows when they reached slow down. > > (1) #1 machine (Celeron 466 with 256 mega byte rams) > > % sysctl kern.maxvnodes > kern.maxvnodes: 17979 > % sysctl vm.zone | grep VNODE > VNODE: 192, 0, 18004, 122, 18004 This looks pretty normal to me for a quiescent system. Ordinarily I would actually suggest raising maxvnodes if you have lots of little files. Does the number of vnodes shoot up when 310.locate runs? Did you get a backtrace from the panics? Perhaps the VM page cache is still interfering...
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