On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 04:53:15PM -0700, Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote:
> 
> gillham@vaultron.com (Andrew Gillham) writes:
> > Yes.  Try:
> > 
> > gdb --write /netbsd
> > set bufpages=80000
> > quit
> > reboot
> 
> Ok. That worked a bit better and grabbed quite a bit of memory.
> 
>     total memory = 767 MB
>     avail memory = 433 MB
>     using 6144 buffers containing 312 MB of memory
> 
> A "du /usr/pkgsrc" still doesn't run that blindingly fast the second
> time around though.  There is still plenty of disk activity.  I am
> guessing that this is due to the disk not being mounted "noatime".

You might need some other tweaks to adjust the number of buffers as well.
I'm not completely sure, I just know that the bufpages trick is needed when
you have more than a 1GB or ram or so. :(

Look at the number of vnodes in use with pstat -T, and at the maxvnodes
in the kernel.  With sysctl kern.maxvnodes.  You may be hitting a limit
there as well.

-Andrew