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From: caddy@osprey.unf.edu (Cliff Addy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Huge caches?
Date: 21 May 1996 14:05:42 GMT
Organization: University of North Florida
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We just brought up a new web server using FreeBSD with Apache 1.0.  I just ran
top and see that we have 38 megs of ram used as cache!  There's a total of
64 megs on the machine and less than a meg is free.

Is this normal?  I *hope* those caches are dynamic.  We did not see this
behavior when the machine was being tested on a standalone network.  Is this
Apache's doing or FreeBSD?

Cliff