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Chase the change of the default value of vfs.vmiodirenable to 1:

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there were parts of the text that still spoke of 'turning it on' or
'keeping it off'.

PR:		70005
Submitted by:	Marju Ignatjeva <marju@bsd.ee>
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Peter Pentchev 2004-08-09 12:58:05 +00:00
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system. Most directories are small, using just a single
fragment (typically 1&nbsp;K) in the file system and less
(typically 512&nbsp;bytes) in the buffer cache.
However, when operating in the default mode the buffer
With this variable turned off (to 0), the buffer
cache will only cache a fixed number of directories even if
you have a huge amount of memory. Turning on this sysctl
you have a huge amount of memory. When turned on (to 1), this sysctl
allows the buffer cache to use the VM Page Cache to cache the
directories, making all the memory available for caching
directories. However,
the minimum in-core memory used to cache a directory is the
physical page size (typically 4&nbsp;K) rather than 512&nbsp;
bytes. We recommend turning this option on if you are running
bytes. We recommend keeping this option on if you are running
any services which manipulate large numbers of files. Such
services can include web caches, large mail systems, and news
systems. Turning on this option will generally not reduce
systems. Keeping this option on will generally not reduce
performance even with the wasted memory but you should
experiment to find out.</para>
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