Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 17:17:16 -0400 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Manipulating disk cache (buf) settings Message-ID: <1F46458B-2524-42AB-8B3D-0F54F485241B@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <20050523174415.GI959@funkthat.com> References: <1116860293.10083.43.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> <20050523174415.GI959@funkthat.com>
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On May 23, 2005, at 1:44 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > This is incorrect... FreeBSD merged the vm and buf systems a while > back, > so all of memory is used as a disk cache.. The buf cache is still > used > for filesystem meta data (and for pending writes of files, but > those buf's > reference the original page, not local storage)... > Cool... So what would you recommend telling an application like Postgres what the cache size is? All of RAM? That seems unlikely given much of the ram is used for other things. Is there no upper bound in how much RAM will be used for the cache? Vivek Khera, Ph.D. +1-301-869-4449 x806
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