Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:52:08 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: joeo@cracktown.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netbsd advances... Message-ID: <200011281752.JAA03370@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:31:57 %2B0100." <v0422080fb6499c5991a4@[195.238.1.121]>
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>At 11:38 AM -0500 2000/11/28, <joeo@cracktown.com> wrote: > >> UBC code integrated into NetBSD-current (27 Nov) (top) >> >> Chuck Silvers has integrated the Unified Buffer Cache project code >> into NetBSD-current. To build a new -current kernel from an existing >> kernel configuration file, you'll want to remove any settings for >> "BUFCACHE", "NBUF", or "BUFPAGES", and let the size of the buffer cache go >> back to the default. After that, you'll need to rerun config, and then you >> can build away. > > This brings up a good question -- does FreeBSD have a unified >buffer cache? If not, is there a particular reason why? Yes, for many years now - since before FreeBSD 2.0. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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