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Subject: limiting Buf memory
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on my 1GB machine:

Mem: 529M Active, 209M Inact, 149M Wired, 38M Cache, 109M Buf, 1772K Free

while "Cache" is dynamic, Buf is not and never goes down.

how can i get it down to somehow like 40MB?