Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 10:26:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao <taob@nbc.netcom.ca> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: FREEBSD-STABLE <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Memory usage on NFS server Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970429102130.12135e-100000@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca> In-Reply-To: <199704290720.AAA11888@implode.root.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, David Greenman wrote:
> ...
> >Mem: 78M Active, 4984K Inact, 17M Wired, 25M Cache, 8343K Buf, 616K Free
>
> The numbers lie; don't believe them. :-) It's not as simple as
> looking at the "cache" number - pages in "active" and "inactive" are
> also part of the file cache.
But in the end, FreeBSD *will* try to use as much physical memory
as possible as a file cache, regardless of what `top' reports? The
owner of the machine thought 128MB was overkill for just an NFS
server, but I assured him all of it would be put to good use. ;-)
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.GSO.3.95.970429102130.12135e-100000>