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Date:      Tue, 9 Nov 2004 11:51:23 -0500
From:      Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Filesystem buffer size
Message-ID:  <968F78D2-326F-11D9-9E53-000A9578CFCC@khera.org>
In-Reply-To: <0B0B1841-31CC-11D9-8097-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
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On Nov 8, 2004, at 4:20 PM, Charles Swiger wrote:

> So long as the system has enough memory available for the working sets 
> of the processes being run, FreeBSD will use the rest of the memory 
> for caching stuff from the filesystem without needing any special 
> tuning.
>

Are you sure of this?  The disk buffer cache from what I have learned 
is maxed out at 200Mb, which is a small fraction of a 4GB RAM box.

Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
+1-301-869-4449 x806



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