Re: Re2: file weirdness / vnlru process issues

[Chris Pressey <cpressey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:15:03 -0700 (PDT)
Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>     Here is a new patch set.  I missed a case in cache_nlookup().  The
>     other patch will work but might still result in unnecessary vnlru
>     process wakeups.
> 
>     The hysteresis is designed such that in a heavily loaded system
>     only 1 out of 10 calls to the namecache will eat cpu cycles
>     cleaning up negative cache entries.

Seems to work much better with this patch, thanks... I was also getting
lockups and "vnode recycler stopped working!" messages last night; they
seem to be gone now too.

-Chris