From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 17 20:56: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sand2.sentex.ca (sand2.sentex.ca [209.167.248.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DB4914C0C for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 20:56:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from gravel (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by sand2.sentex.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA29368 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 23:55:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.1.19991117234540.04c45e10@granite.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtancsa@granite.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 23:56:24 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Increasing disk cache Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a somewhat large postgres database on a server (currently about 6gig). The data is only written to once a day, and otherwise is just read the rest of the day. The machine has after running for a while shows Mem: 23M Active, 99M Inact, 16M Wired, 8664K Cache, 8344K Buf, 40M Free Would it make sense to tune my kernel so that the disk cache is larger ? If so, where would I tune this. ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa, Network Admin * mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications Corp, * http://www.sentex.net/mike Cambridge, Ontario * 519 651 3400 Canada * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message