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From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FBSD-2.1-R: buffer cache configurable?
Date: 21 May 1996 08:22:05 GMT
Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants
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In article <4nqkn0$8n3@luva.lb.bawue.de>,
Michael Giegerich <migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de> wrote:
> 
> We would like to increase the buffer cache of our FBSD-2.1-R system
> with 64 MB of RAM.

FreeBSD 2.0.5 and  up all use an   unified VM/buffer cache  scheme in which
almost  all of unused  memory is used as   buffer cache. You  don't need to
tweek anything for that.
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