Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 22:45:30 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Brian Behlendorf <brian@collab.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk I/O Message-ID: <4.2.2.20001108223610.01b09500@marble.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011081851080.1844-100000@yez.hyperreal.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10011081745020.11646-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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At 07:27 PM 11/8/2000 -0800, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
>Maybe what I'm looking for is a way to increase the amount of RAM cache I
>can make available for disk accesses; what's the standard place to look at
>for monitoring & tuning that? Or is this something that it's better not
>to touch, just let the OS figure out? I ask because I don't appear to be
>using all the RAM I've got available (based on the fact that I hardly ever
>swap).
The easiest and quickest fix is to just feed the machine more RAM. The OS
will be clever enough to make use of it in an intelligent way without you
having to tune much at all. But if your server is doing work that does not
lend itself well to caching, then a faster disk system is the way to go.
---Mike
---Mike
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