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Date:      12 Jan 2006 08:16:59 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: limiting Buf memory
Message-ID:  <44irsptwl0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060111112654.O11627@chylonia.3miasto.net>
References:  <20060111112654.O11627@chylonia.3miasto.net>

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Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> writes:

> on my 1GB machine:
> 
> Mem: 529M Active, 209M Inact, 149M Wired, 38M Cache, 109M Buf, 1772K Free
> 
> while "Cache" is dynamic, Buf is not and never goes down.
> 
> how can i get it down to somehow like 40MB?

I can't think of a way to do that.
On the other hand, I can't think of a reason you would want to, either.

You have plenty of memory available, so I can't imagine why you'd want
to take the performance hit of reducing the buffer space.

And: buffer use *is* dynamic, it just tends to be more stable than cache.



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