Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:28:55 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing disk cache Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19991118102855.024c7380@staff.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <19991118102714.24683@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> References: <4.1.19991118002336.04c45290@granite.sentex.ca> <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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At 10:27 AM 11/18/99 -0500, Greg Lehey wrote: >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? Much better now it seems. Mem: 20M Active, 135M Inact, 16M Wired, 10M Cache, 8349K Buf, 5516K Free Swap: 512M Total, 512M Free Is the "Inact" figure actually used as disk cache then ? ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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