From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 25 13:29:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axel.truedestiny.net (a185066.upc-a.chello.nl [62.163.185.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2479537B416 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:29:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by axel.truedestiny.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BB73649AB2; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:29:25 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:29:25 +0200 From: Axel Scheepers To: "Jan L. Peterson" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for magic knob to twiddle Message-ID: <20020425222925.E24392@mars.thuis> Reply-To: Axel Scheepers References: <20020423225317.F3F9241F22@mail.flipdog.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020423225317.F3F9241F22@mail.flipdog.com>; from jlp@softhome.net on Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 04:53:16PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 04:53:16PM -0600, Jan L. Peterson wrote: > What I'd like to do is persuade the system to devote more of its RAM to > buffer space, but I can't find the knob to do that. Any help would be > appreciated. > > FYI, I'm not on -questions, so please CC me on any replies (or mail > directly to me and I will summarize to -questions). > > Thanks for any help you can provide. Hi Jan, Have you looked at sysctl yet? I noticed some values with sysctl vm | less, although they don't say much to me at first. The last couple might be interesting: .. vm.zone_kmem_pages: 143 vm.zone_kmem_kvaspace: 16732160 vm.zone_kern_pages: 1407 vm.kvm_size: 1069547520 vm.kvm_free: 910163968 Hope it's helpfull. > > -jan- > -- > Jan L. Peterson > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Gr, -- Axel Scheepers UNIX System Administrator email: axel@axel.truedestiny.net a.scheepers@iae.nl http://axel.truedestiny.net/~axel ------------------------------------------ Kiss me twice. I'm schizophrenic. ------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message