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Date:      Sun, 20 Aug 1995 11:03:43 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        davidg@root.com
Cc:        taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject:   Re: Making a FreeBSD NFS server
Message-ID:  <199508200903.LAA27466@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199508200807.BAA00373@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Aug 20, 95 01:07:31 am

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(Sorry, i'm not yet back on -hackers, so i'm going to miss pieces.)

>    FreeBSD 2.0.5 and beyond will automatically use all free memory for file
> caching...no hacks are needed.

The idea was not to use the _free_ memory, but _dedicate_ a large
amount of memory for the buffer cache.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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