From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 9: 0:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4607837B605 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:00:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA08460; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:51:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200008101551.LAA08460@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Dan Nelson" Cc: "FreeBSD questions" Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:01:11 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <20000809104757.A12045@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Suggested minimun memory for light use 100Gb filesystem? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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