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Date:      Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:42:21 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk (Duncan Barclay)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, dillon@apollo.backplane.com
Subject:   Re: Directories not VMIO cached at all!
Message-ID:  <199904192042.PAA20471@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990418191810.dmlb@computer.my.domain> from Duncan Barclay at "Apr 18, 99 07:18:10 pm"

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> On 18-Apr-99 John S. Dyson wrote:
> > Perhaps before getting rid of B_MALLOC, take a look at the standard
> > mix of directory sizes (don't just look at news servers.)  If there is an
> > extreme bias towards 512 or 2048, then you might consider keeping B_MALLOC.
> > 
> > John
> 
> >From my home machine which I'd classify as a workstation:
> 
> Directory Size          Count
> 512                     34354
> 1024                    963
> 1536                    358
> 2048                    245
> 2560                    74
> 3072                    50
> 3584                    37
> 4096                    39
....
>
Your results show the wastefulness of using a page for everything.  There
is NO gain from wasting the memory by rounding everything up to a page.
If buffers are not used for sub-page entities, another scheme should be
used.  I fear expediency or sloppiness will prevail.

John



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