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diff --git a/share/man/man7/tuning.7 b/share/man/man7/tuning.7
index 34c8ac37c188..ba264d39d7bb 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/tuning.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/tuning.7
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd January 23, 2009
+.Dd October 16, 2010
.Dt TUNING 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -511,6 +511,24 @@ Also,
higher write queueing values may add latency to reads occurring at the same
time.
.Pp
+The
+.Va vfs.ncsizefactor
+sysctl defines how large VFS namecache may grow.
+The number of currently allocated entries in namecache is provided by
+.Va debug.numcache
+sysctl and the condition
+debug.numcache < kern.maxvnodes * vfs.ncsizefactor
+is adhered to.
+.Pp
+The
+.Va vfs.ncnegfactor
+sysctl defines how many negative entries VFS namecache is allowed to create.
+The number of currently allocated negative entries is provided by
+.Va debug.numneg
+sysctl and the condition
+vfs.ncnegfactor * debug.numneg < debug.numcache
+is adhered to.
+.Pp
There are various other buffer-cache and VM page cache related sysctls.
We do not recommend modifying these values.
As of