From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 20 02:12:56 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id CAA20376 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 02:12:56 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA20367 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 02:12:48 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA25638; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 11:11:12 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA09142; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 11:11:11 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA27466; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 11:03:44 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508200903.LAA27466@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Making a FreeBSD NFS server To: davidg@root.com Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 11:03:43 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de In-Reply-To: <199508200807.BAA00373@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Aug 20, 95 01:07:31 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 430 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk (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. ;-)