kern/52425: kern.maxvnodes cannot limit the number of vnodes in use

[David Schultz]

The following reply was made to PR kern/52425; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Schultz <das at FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Masachika ISHIZUKA <ishizuka at ish.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/52425: kern.maxvnodes cannot limit the number of vnodes in use
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 04:06:33 -0700

 On Mon, May 19, 2003, Masachika ISHIZUKA wrote:
 > 	I have mank a disk that has many (more than ten millions) hard links
 > 	and /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate makes this machine slow down
 > 	extremely. The usage of vnode is as follows.
 > 
 > 	kern.maxvnodes: 134882
 > 	kern.minvnodes: 33720
 > 	debug.numvnodes: 375907
 > 	debug.wantfreevnodes: 25
 > 	debug.freevnodes:  27046
 > 
 > 	I think kern.maxvnodes should limit the debug.numvnodes.
 
 Tor Egge addressed this issue in rev 1.249.2.30 of
 src/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c.  Can you please verify that
 the symptoms you are experiencing are gone in -STABLE?