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From: kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.1 Disk Cacheing
Date: 23 Dec 1996 19:48:56 -0500
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
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> Looking to increase the disk buffering on a NetBSD 1.1 web server, it is 
> serving from a relativley small pool of data but hammering the disk.

You might want to try a better web server in addtion to a large buffer
cache.  See http://www.roxen.com