From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 20 12:20:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15509 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 12:20:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uranus.planet-three.com (homer.duff-beer.com [194.207.51.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15501 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 12:20:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scot@poptart.org) Received: from Jupiter.planet-three.com (host5-99-45-138.btinternet.com [195.99.45.138]) by uranus.planet-three.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA23999 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 20:20:42 GMT Received: from localhost (scot@localhost) by Jupiter.planet-three.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA05938 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 20:20:33 GMT (envelope-from scot@planet-three.com) X-Authentication-Warning: Jupiter.planet-three.com: scot owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 20:20:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Scot Elliott To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No disk cache after memory upgrade (2.2/pii-300/512mb) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Yep... I get the same thing... one of our machines just sits there, always with free memory. It's never doing anything (it's rare to see any load at all) - the same with the others - but their cache fills up and they never have free memory. Bizare eh? Scot On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Rob Hartill wrote: > Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 16:41:21 +0000 (GMT) > From: Rob Hartill > To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: No disk cache after memory upgrade (2.2/pii-300/512mb) > > > Yesterday we added 256mb to a batch of servers, doubling them to 512k. > > One of the batch was running an older kernel/world than the others. The > older one was circa Dec97 (cvsup'ed 2.2 stable) and the others were circa > Feb 98. > > We removed "options BOUNCE_BUFFERS" from the kernel after > reading about problem with >256mb. > > Installing the same kernel on all machines, they all rebooted fine, however > the most out of date server showed no sign on any 'Cache' being used > under 'top', instead it showed tons of 'Free' memory. The other machines > filled their caches up just fine (which was our primary goal in adding > more memory). > > Thinking the kernel (taken from one of the more recent servers) might not > quite match with the rest of the world, we built a new kernel on the older > box, same problem; next we tried a complete make world on cvsup'ed > sources from yesterday (2.2.6-BETA) - same problem. > > Anyone seen this ? > > The /etc/rc* files look up to date. > > The machines are 300mhz PIIs. > > baffled, > rob > -- > Rob Hartill Internet Movie Database (Ltd) > http://www.moviedatabase.com/ .. a site for sore eyes. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message