Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:39:06 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing disk cache Message-ID: <4.1.19991118002336.04c45290@granite.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <19991117231754.A15240@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4.1.19991117234540.04c45e10@granite.sentex.ca> <4.1.19991117234540.04c45e10@granite.sentex.ca>
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At 12:17 AM 11/18/99 , Dan Nelson wrote: >In the last episode (Nov 17), Mike Tancsa said: >> Mem: 23M Active, 99M Inact, 16M Wired, 8664K Cache, 8344K Buf, 40M Free >> >> Would it make sense to tune my kernel so that the disk cache is larger ? >> If so, where would I tune this. > >FreeBSD uses all available RAM as a disk cache. The Inact, Cache, and >Buf amounts are all "cache" memory, just varying types. I'm sort of >surprised about the 40M of Free memory, though. Most systems hover at >< 5M free. Did a memory-hogging process (Netscape, say) just exit? No. Actually, that was taken 1hr after doing a make world and reboot. ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa, Network Admin * mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications Corp, * http://www.sentex.net/mike Cambridge, Ontario * 519 651 3400 Canada * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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