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> References: <W375042711539661099937843@webmail2> <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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