From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 17 21:38:46 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 CFB5814A09 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:38:44 -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 AAA29606; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:38:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.1.19991118002336.04c45290@granite.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtancsa@granite.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:39:06 -0500 To: Dan Nelson From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Increasing disk cache Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19991117231754.A15240@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4.1.19991117234540.04c45e10@granite.sentex.ca> <4.1.19991117234540.04c45e10@granite.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:17 AM 11/18/99 , Dan Nelson wrote: >In the last episode (Nov 17), Mike Tancsa said: >> 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. > >FreeBSD uses all available RAM as a disk cache. The Inact, Cache, and >Buf amounts are all "cache" memory, just varying types. I'm sort of >surprised about the 40M of Free memory, though. Most systems hover at >< 5M free. Did a memory-hogging process (Netscape, say) just exit? No. Actually, that was taken 1hr after doing a make world and reboot. ********************************************************************** 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