free/flushing vnodes ...

Marc G. Fournier scrappy at hub.org
Tue Aug 31 13:43:29 PDT 2004


I have a server that currently is hitting its limit of vnodes:

Aug 31 17:33:01 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 519920 - debug.freevnodes: 9256 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 253542 - vlrup
Aug 31 17:34:00 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 519920 - debug.freevnodes: 9110 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 253561 - vlrup
Aug 31 17:35:02 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 519920 - debug.freevnodes: 8668 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 253580 - vlrup
Aug 31 17:36:00 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 519920 - debug.freevnodes: 8862 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 253600 - vlrup
Aug 31 17:37:00 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 519920 - debug.freevnodes: 8661 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 253619 - vlrup
Aug 31 17:38:00 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 519920 - debug.freevnodes: 9001 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 253638 - vlrup
Aug 31 17:39:00 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 519920 - debug.freevnodes: 9075 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 253657 - vlrup
Aug 31 17:40:01 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 519920 - debug.freevnodes: 9119 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 253677 - vlrup
Aug 31 17:41:00 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 519920 - debug.freevnodes: 9457 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 253696 - vlrup
Aug 31 17:42:00 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 519920 - debug.freevnodes: 9221 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 253715 - vlrup

Its been up for 25 days now ... is there a way of 'flushing' vnodes?  for 
instance, if I were to shut down all of the processes on the machine, is 
therer something like 'sync' that I could run that would flush all the 
vnodes before starting up the processes again?  Without doing a reboot?

Thanks ...


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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy at hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664


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