Last update: 2009-10-08
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I recently (well, three months ago) committed the vm_lowmem event handler I
wrote for dirhash during the 2008 Google Summer of Code to -CURRENT. It will be
in 8.0, and I just today MFC'd it to 7-STABLE.

In the future I would like to increase the default vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem on
systems with large amounts of memory. I have been thinking about doing some new
benchmarking of dirhash performance with different max amounts of memory and so
forth to figure out a good way to do this. This would give me a chance to gather
some better statistics than are currently shown on
http://wiki.freebsd.org/DirhashDynamicMemory and also perhaps do a performance
comparison with ZFS.

In the more distant future I would like to investigate on-disk directory
indexing for UFS2, but this is a rather large project.

Planned work on ports I maintain:
- Update sysutils/farbot and sysutils/apt ports to latest versions

PRs:
- bin/100956 and bin/104553 (opened by me a long time ago) can potentially be 
  committed after the freeze for 8.0
- Look into kern/117954: dirhash can block the whole system for very large 
  directories