Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:27:14 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing disk cache Message-ID: <19991118102714.24683@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19991118002336.04c45290@granite.sentex.ca>; from Mike Tancsa on Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 12:39:06AM -0500 References: <4.1.19991117234540.04c45e10@granite.sentex.ca> <4.1.19991117234540.04c45e10@granite.sentex.ca> <19991117231754.A15240@dan.emsphone.com> <4.1.19991118002336.04c45290@granite.sentex.ca>
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On Thursday, 18 November 1999 at 0:39:06 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > 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. What does it look like now? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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