Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 22:19:14 -0300 (EST) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br> To: robh@imdb.com (Rob Hartill) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No disk cache after memory upgrade (2.2/pii-300/512mb) Message-ID: <199803210119.WAA21371@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980320224403.10636B-100000@localhost> from Rob Hartill at "Mar 20, 98 10:46:08 pm"
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#define quoting(Rob Hartill) // > 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? // // Strangely, after about 24 hours of being cache-less, it suddenly came // to life again. I'm wondering if it's just not reporting the cache for // some unknown reason. Pay attention to the Active Memory size, and see if it grows with disk access. Disk cache can also be listed as Active Memory. I don't know exactly why, but this is most commom if your partitions are mounted async. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 jonny@coppe.ufrj.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ/COPPE/CISI PGP fingerprint: 29 C0 50 B9 B6 3E 58 F2 83 5F E3 26 BF 0F EA 67 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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