Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 21:09:13 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: HMG coA reductase <s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk cache? Message-ID: <199605090409.VAA01491@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 May 1996 13:18:01 %2B1000." <199605090318.NAA07965@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU>
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>g'day all, >i am wondering if FreeBSD implements something analogous to MS-DOS' >SmartDrive, viz a disk cache to speed up access. > >i noticed that if i do say a "man ifconfig" (or man whatever) consecutively, >even with no other users around, it takes almost the same amount of time >to bring the screen up. "man" decompresses the manual page each time, so it's a bad test example. All file accesses in FreeBSD are cached and the dynamic cache can grow as large as the amount of RAM in your machine. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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