From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 30 1:52:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.elumaja.ee (ns.elumaja.ee [194.204.31.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C9B515846 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 01:52:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from white@ns.elumaja.ee) Received: from localhost (white@localhost) by ns.elumaja.ee (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA17452 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 11:48:51 +0300 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 11:48:51 +0300 (EEST) From: Zytec To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Tuning OS Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all. I've been looking for "top" program output for some time and got a question regarding disk cache size. Here's an example: Mem: 17M Active, 87M Inact, 15M Wired, 4644K Cache, 8351K Buf, 676K Free Swap: 128M Total, 1380K Used, 127M Free, 1% Inuse As I understand, "Buf" variable shows the disk cache and it is ~8MB in size. This server has SMB running and serves a ~7GB partition from which ~1GB of data is in active use by SMB server/clients. The server has 128MB of memory total from which 87M is in inactive state as shown in "top" output. So the question is: how could I increase disk cache size and will it increase SMB server performance also? Does anyone have such experience to improve disk system performance by tuning disk cache size? I think, this is not a Samba server question, but FreeBSD system itself. With best regards, Roman. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message