From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 20 01:06:54 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id BAA16580 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 01:06:54 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA16572 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 01:06:49 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.34]) by Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with ESMTP id BAA00634; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 01:05:21 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id BAA00373; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 01:07:33 -0700 Message-Id: <199508200807.BAA00373@corbin.Root.COM> To: Brian Tao cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Joerg Wunsch Subject: Re: Making a FreeBSD NFS server In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Aug 95 15:07:27 +0800." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 01:07:31 -0700 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >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