From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 18 7:31: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8722F1514D for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 07:30:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA15995; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:30:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA12011; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:30:50 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991118102855.024c7380@staff.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@staff.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:28:55 -0500 To: Greg Lehey From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Increasing disk cache Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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