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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
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