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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!in2p3.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Increasing cache ? Date: 7 Feb 1996 16:01:07 GMT Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4faic3$fv9@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> References: <823673122.24218@loddon.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc-sec.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <823673122.24218@loddon.demon.co.uk>, Stuart Broderick <stuart@loddon.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Is there a kernel parameter (or something else) to define how much of > the available memory can be used as cache ? On some UNIXes there is a > parameter to do this. You don't need a parameter on FreeBSD. FreeBSD has a unified VM/buffer cache system where all available mmory can be used a buffer cache. [[ cc'ed to Stuart ]] -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-