Subject: Re: performance slowdown after longish uptime
To: Mark Davies <mark@MCS.VUW.AC.NZ>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 08/29/2000 12:38:14
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:33:39PM +1200, Mark Davies wrote:
> From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 15:51:48 +0200
>
> > Looks like a disk buffer or vnode leack. There was one which was solved
> > some time ago. Could you try a newer kernel, maybe the one from 1.5_ALPHA2 ?
>
> Well the one that was described in PR 9792 was fixed prior to the kernel
> I'm currently running, but I'm just in the process of building a -current
> from today. Once I put that in it will take a week or two to determine if
> the problem is still there. Anything you suggest I monitor while this is
> happening?
'systat buf' at last; I'm not sure how to monitor vnode usage.
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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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