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On Sun 07/20/2003-01:53:39PM -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> 
> You might want to get in the habit of using sysctl for getting that
> kind of info.  `sysctl -d vfs.bufspace`
> 

I'm confused.  Everything I have ever read about FreeBSD indicates 
that it uses all free ram for the disk cache.