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Date:      Sun, 2 Jul 2000 13:50:26 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Sitaram Iyer <ssiyer@cs.rice.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: name cache size
Message-ID:  <20000702135026.P25571@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000702143001.B24321@cs.rice.edu>; from ssiyer@cs.rice.edu on Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 02:30:01PM -0500
References:  <20000702143001.B24321@cs.rice.edu>

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* Sitaram Iyer <ssiyer@cs.rice.edu> [000702 12:32] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> for the purposes of an experiment, how can I increase the size of freebsd's
> name cache? Currently, find -type f on a tree with more than 40,000 files
> refuses to cache the results, and increasing desiredvnodes and the size of
> nchashtbl didn't seem to help. (4.0-RELEASE, with maxusers=512).
> 
> thanks in advance,
> 
> (should this have gone to -questions instead? wasn't sure..)

Try this:

sysctl -w vfs.vmiodirenable=1

-Alfred


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