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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-01-17 05:29:03 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-01-17 05:29:03 +0000
commitde159e9af1bebe3f3f470d3cb189340a01cdf810 (patch)
treefb24553d4a2440390497e9a8d67ddf5832a51efa /release
parent30e4a25f3062bbf6e045493f7e89c9fb9b832d25 (diff)
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New release notes: kern.maxvnodes now works, VIA 82C686B Southbridge
fix.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml11
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml11
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index b39fa6a..f0d9b3b 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -345,6 +345,13 @@
sysctl variables have moved from <varname>kern.security.*</varname> to
<varname>security.*</varname>.</para>
+ <para>The <varname>kern.maxvnodes</varname> limit now properly
+ limits the number of vnodes in use. Previously only vnodes with
+ no cached pages could be freed; this could allow the number of
+ vnodes to grow without limit on large-memory machines accessing
+ many small files. A <literal>vnlru</literal> kernel thread helps
+ to flush and reuse vnodes. &merged;</para>
+
<sect3>
<title>Processor/Motherboard Support</title>
@@ -869,6 +876,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
addressing. Devices larger than 137GB are now
supported. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now contains fixes for some data
+ corruption problems on systems using the VIA 82C686B Southbridge
+ chip. &merged;</para>
+
<para>The CAM error recovery code has been updated.</para>
<para>The &man.cd.4; driver now has support for write operations.
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index b39fa6a..f0d9b3b 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -345,6 +345,13 @@
sysctl variables have moved from <varname>kern.security.*</varname> to
<varname>security.*</varname>.</para>
+ <para>The <varname>kern.maxvnodes</varname> limit now properly
+ limits the number of vnodes in use. Previously only vnodes with
+ no cached pages could be freed; this could allow the number of
+ vnodes to grow without limit on large-memory machines accessing
+ many small files. A <literal>vnlru</literal> kernel thread helps
+ to flush and reuse vnodes. &merged;</para>
+
<sect3>
<title>Processor/Motherboard Support</title>
@@ -869,6 +876,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
addressing. Devices larger than 137GB are now
supported. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.ata.4; driver now contains fixes for some data
+ corruption problems on systems using the VIA 82C686B Southbridge
+ chip. &merged;</para>
+
<para>The CAM error recovery code has been updated.</para>
<para>The &man.cd.4; driver now has support for write operations.
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