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Date:      Tue, 16 Oct 2001 20:32:12 +0200
From:      Maxime Henrion <mux@qualys.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vnode_pager.c
Message-ID:  <20011016203212.D447@nebula.cybercable.fr>
In-Reply-To: <200110161824.f9GIOjT33989@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Well, 11% over a period of a single second, once every 30 seconds 
>     makes sense if there are a lot of vnodes cached.  I think you are
>     seeing the same issue, just that on -stable there is much lower
>     overhead.
> 
>     Basically we have two routines that are causing problems:
> 
>     ffs_sync()
>     qsync() (quota sync)
[explanation ripped]

Perhaps my problem is because of something else ; I recompiled a kernel
with a different syncdelay in vfs_subr.c, 42s (sorry ;) instead of 30s.
I also bumped SYNCER_MAXDELAY accordingly.  But, the problem was still
happening every 30s.

Maxime
-- 
Don't be fooled by cheap finnish imitations ; BSD is the One True Code

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