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To: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com>
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Subject: Re: Disk Cache... changable? 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 18:46:35 -0700
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>I'm looking at building a machine that will be used (99% of the time) as
>an NFS file server. It'll probably be a 586/100 with 32MB of Ram, running
>little other than NFS daemons. I remember way back in 1.1.5.1 that there
>was a value you could tweak in one of the source code that controlled the
>percentage of free RAM that was used as disk cache. If anyone could point
>me at this, I'd greatly appreciate it.

   If the machine is running 2.1R or later versions of FreeBSD, all of free
memory will automatically be used to cache files. You don't to change any
values in the source.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project