| From: | Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz> |
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| To: | Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar(at)frodo(dot)hserus(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Dror Matalon <dror(at)zapatec(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: FreeBSD config |
| Date: | 2004-03-01 07:30:58 |
| Message-ID: | 4042E6B2.1060906@paradise.net.nz |
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Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> Dror Matalon wrote:
>
>> I've read Matt Dillon's discussion about the freebsd VM at
>> http://www.daemonnews.org/200001/freebsd_vm.html and I didn't see him
>> saying that Freebsd uses all the free RAM for disk cache. Would you care
>> to provide a URL pointing to that?
>
>
>
Quoting from http://www.daemonnews.org/200001/freebsd_vm.html :
<snip>*
When To Free a Page*
Since the VM system uses all available memory for disk caching, there
are usually very few truly-free pages...
</snip>
Got to say - a very interesting discussion you have all being having, I
am now quite confused about what those vfs.*buf* variables actually do...
Please feed back any clarfications from the FreeBSD experts to this list!
regards
Mark
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