[ fbsd_quest ] file_caching and hd caches

2009-04-08 Thread spellberg_robert
howdy, y'all --- so, i was looking over the offerings of the on_line retailing usual suspects, when i got to thinking: q: to what extent does freebsd cache recently_used hard_drive files ? q: under freebsd, to what extent are hard_drive internal_caches and their sizes [ e. g.,

Re: [ fbsd_quest ] file_caching and hd caches

2009-04-08 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, spellberg_robert wrote: howdy, y'all --- so, i was looking over the offerings of the on_line retailing usual suspects, when i got to thinking: q: to what extent does freebsd cache recently_used hard_drive files ? To the extent that RAM is available. q: under

Re: [ fbsd_quest ] file_caching and hd caches

2009-04-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
hard_drive internal_caches and their sizes [ e. g., 2mb, 8mb, 16mb ] important ? It depends on workload. almost not important. if FreeBSD would support NCQ it will be more, but still anything above 4MB doesn't make a difference IMHO.

Re: [ fbsd_quest ] file_caching and hd caches

2009-04-08 Thread spellberg_robert
thanks, warren [ love your dot_com, btw ] --- Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, spellberg_robert wrote: howdy, y'all --- so, i was looking over the offerings of the on_line retailing usual suspects, when i got to thinking: q: to what extent does freebsd cache recently_used