On 16:51+0300, Dec 19, 2002, Varshavchick Alexander wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Maxim Konovalov wrote:

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> > [ Trim -questions ]
> >
> > On 16:21+0300, Dec 19, 2002, Varshavchick Alexander wrote:
> >
> > > There seems to be archive posts already on the subject, the most
> > > informative of them is here:
> > > 
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1093170+1102546+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-stable/20010923.freebsd-stable
> > >
> > > Did this issue got solved somehow? More specifically, how the size of the
> > > FFS node malloc area can be increased?
> >
> > Sounds like kern/32672.
>
> Yes it does, but the problem seems to remain in 4.5-STABLE, how can it be
> patched?
>
> *****
>        State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> ....
>        This is believed to be fixed in -stable (and thus for the upcoming 4.5
>        release).  The problem was that the vnode/inode reclamation system depends
>        on the VM system running out of memory and having to free vnodes/inodes up.
>        Machines with large amounts of ram, however, will often run the malloc
>        bucket for vnodes or inodes out before they run out of memory.
>
>        Our solution is to enforce the kern.maxvnodes limit by proactively reclaiming
>        vnodes/inodes when the limit is reached, even if there is still lots of free
>        memory.
> *****
>
> Can you point me to a code performing it, if it's fixed in the latest
> release?

We should CC: Matt Dillon, dillon@. Could you please summarize all
information and send a complete bug report to -hackers?

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