Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 01:07:31 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Making a FreeBSD NFS server Message-ID: <199508200807.BAA00373@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 20 Aug 95 15:07:27 %2B0800." <Pine.BSI.3.91.950820150451.17751v-100000@aries>
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>On Sat, 19 Aug 1995, J Wunsch wrote: >> >> It's been just a ten-liner or so to convince the system dedicating 36 >> out of 64 MB for the file system buffer cache (after getting some >> hints from David). The remaining RAM still proves sufficient for two >> concurrent compilations of large and bloated C++/X11 applications, >> btw. :-) >> >> I have no idea if similar tricks would be possible under FreeBSD 2. > > What are the tricks involved? I would be interested in putting >together a fast 486 PCI box with 48 megs of RAM and seeing just how >well it can handle NFS requests from 120+ simultaneous users spread >out over about 20 gigs of disk. What kind of performance are you >getting out of your 1.1.5.1 machine? FreeBSD 2.0.5 and beyond will automatically use all free memory for file caching...no hacks are needed. -DG
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