ZFS leaking vnodes (sort of)

Thierry Herbelot thierry at herbelot.com
Mon Jul 9 17:58:28 UTC 2007


Le Monday 09 July 2007, Doug Rabson a écrit :
> I think it should help the memory usage problems - for one thing since
> the vnodes were never hitting the free list, VOP_INACTIVE wasn't being
> properly called on then after last-close which (I think) is supposed to
> flush out various things. Not quite sure about that bit. Certainly it
> reduces the number of active vnodes in the system back down to the
> wantfreevnodes value.

At least, here, on a very old and very small machine, with a pair of obsolete 
IDE disks, the three changes you suggested improve buildworld by around 30% 
(18hrs -> 14hrs)

	Thanks

	TfH


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