Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:37:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Zytec <white@ns.elumaja.ee> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tuning OS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904301236290.16807-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990430114806.17450A-100000@ns.elumaja.ee>
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On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Zytec wrote: > 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. You don't since it won't help, and may actually hurt. 8MB of buffer cache is quite a bit. The system will tune this number for you. There are other Samba options you can tune to help things. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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