5.2-RELEASE crash

Scott Long scottl at freebsd.org
Sat Jan 31 09:49:04 PST 2004


Andy Hilker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
>>Also, the scaling of kern.maxvnodes doesn't work very well.  On a large
>>memory system, it will typically set this to 200,000-300,000.  If you
>>don't need this many, then it is easier to just crank it down to a more
>>reasonable level than fiddle with the KMEM parameters.
> 
> 
> And what is reasonable level or how i determine it? :)
> 
> Andy
> 

Look at what you are doing with your system.  If you're serving a 
high-traffic website with hundreds of thousands of files, you might not
want to lower the maxvnode limit.  If you're only dealing with a small
working set of files that only spikes occasionally, lowering the limit
is probably a good thing.

Scott



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