On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:26:30 +0000 (UTC) y...@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
> hi, > > > On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:56:33 +0000 (UTC) > > y...@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote: > > > >> when the kernel wants to cache other files. > >> ie. whenever the kernel decides to reclaim it. :-) > >> you can increase the chance by running > >> while :;do sysctl -w kern.maxvnodes=0; done > >> or something like that. > > > > Wouldn't the performance also drop significantly with a permanently low > > maxvnodes, though? > > it does never succeed. > anyway the performance is not a priority when trying to reproduce a bug. Oh, I had missed the context, thanks for the explanation. -- Matt