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From: Raul Zighelboim <mango@staff.communique.net>
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Subject: RE: kern.maxvnodes and systat -v
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Is there a way I can increase the # of Kbytes fro buffers ?

	Thanks.


> `buf' gives the number of Kbytes for buffers.  It has nothing to do
> with
> kern.maxvnodes.
> 
> The kern.maxvnodes sysctl is somewhat broken in all versions of
> FreeBSD.
> In all released versions, it changes a limit on the number of vnodes
> but not the size of the namecache hash table.  This isn't much of a
> problem in practice.  In some old unreleased versions, kern.maxvnodes
> was readonly.  In -current, changing the variable behind
> kern.maxvnodes
> (desirevnodes) is a no-op (desiredvnodes no longer has anything to do
> with vnodes; it is only used to size the namecache hash table, and
> this
> table is initialized before the kern.maxvnode sysctl can be executed).
> 
> Bruce