On May 23, 2005, at 1:44 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
This is incorrect... FreeBSD merged the vm and buf systems a while
back,
so all of memory is used as a disk cache.. The buf cache is still
used
for filesystem meta data (and for pending writes of files, but
those buf's
reference the original page, not local storage)...
Cool... So what would you recommend telling an application like
Postgres what the cache size is? All of RAM? That seems unlikely
given much of the ram is used for other things. Is there no upper
bound in how much RAM will be used for the cache?
Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
+1-301-869-4449 x806
_______________________________________________
freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
