Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:01:11 -0400 From: "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net> To: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: "FreeBSD questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Suggested minimun memory for light use 100Gb filesystem? Message-ID: <200008101551.LAA08460@sanson.reyes.somos.net> In-Reply-To: <20000809104757.A12045@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 10:47:57 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: >64MB should be fine, 128MB is probably better. I've got a 200gb volume >used as a staging area for dumping files to DLT, and the machine has >128MB of RAM. As long as you're just doing sequential I/O, the amount >of RAM you have isn't that important. Thanks. I am planning on giving it 128MB of ram and see how that works. How can one tell if the amount of memory is not enough for caching? Left 3 columns on vmstat? francisco Moderator of the Corporate BSD list http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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