From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 28 9:54:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D60B37B400 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:54:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA03370; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:52:08 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011281752.JAA03370@implode.root.com> To: Brad Knowles Cc: joeo@cracktown.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netbsd advances... In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:31:57 +0100." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:52:08 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >At 11:38 AM -0500 2000/11/28, wrote: > >> UBC code integrated into NetBSD-current (27 Nov) (top) >> >> Chuck Silvers has integrated the Unified Buffer Cache project code >> into NetBSD-current. To build a new -current kernel from an existing >> kernel configuration file, you'll want to remove any settings for >> "BUFCACHE", "NBUF", or "BUFPAGES", and let the size of the buffer cache go >> back to the default. After that, you'll need to rerun config, and then you >> can build away. > > This brings up a good question -- does FreeBSD have a unified >buffer cache? If not, is there a particular reason why? Yes, for many years now - since before FreeBSD 2.0. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message