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From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Subject: Re: Forcing buffer cache to use available memory
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> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to force the buffer cache to be more aggressive when
> caching reads? Or even just plain force a certain number of megabytes
> to be dedicated to the buffer cache?

it is. sometimes too aggressive.