From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 1 15:11:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA04985 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 15:11:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from calliope1.fm.intel.com (calliope1.fm.intel.com [132.233.247.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA04980 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 15:11:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris.t.callanan@intel.com) Received: from fmsmsx29.FM.INTEL.COM (fmsmsx29.fm.intel.com [132.233.42.29]) by calliope1.fm.intel.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA13989; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 22:10:26 GMT Message-Id: <199809012210.WAA13989@calliope1.fm.intel.com> Received: by FMSMSX29 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 15:10:26 -0700 From: "Callanan, Chris T" To: "\"Gryphenne Cassandra\" " Cc: "\"freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG\" " Subject: RE: Disk Cache Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 15:06:00 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I guess maybe I didn't make myself clear. I want more drive activity on the server side. I am not using a browser, but a home grown synthetic test from the client side. It is not doing any caching. I'm in a system test lab and would like to get stress to my disk controller, but the files this test is grabbing are fairly small in size and in number, so they are all in FreeBSDs cache. My configuration is: Server: Pentium II processor, 440BX chipset, 64 MB RAM, 2x e100b NIC, 2940 SCSI. 16 clients, 8 on each network, running a test that does http gets to the server. Thanks --Chris ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: Disk Cache Author: "Gryphenne Cassandra" [SMTP:dionn@spiritone.com] at MSXGATE Date: 9/1/98 1:31 PM Chris Callanan wrote: > > I am running a synthetic web server test with FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE, > running > Apache 1.2.5. > > My test uses only a few discrete files, so they end up getting cached in > > memory, and my drive system gets no work at all. > > Is there a way to turn off the cache to force each request to go to the > disk? Which browser are you using? In Netscape, setting the memory cache size to zero will cause all pages to be cached on disk, provided that disk caching is enabled. -- Gryphenne Cassandra, BFH, WSIAMB & President of the Foundation Consulting, Tech Support, Mass-bandwidth ICQ: 15038888 Come to the Waterfront and ask for the Gryphenne To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message