Re: Filesystem buffer size

2004-11-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
Vivek Khera wrote: On Nov 8, 2004, at 4:20 PM, Charles Swiger wrote: So long as the system has enough memory available for the working sets of the processes being run, FreeBSD will use the rest of the memory for caching stuff from the filesystem without needing any special tuning. Are you sure of

Re: Filesystem buffer size

2004-11-09 Thread Vivek Khera
On Nov 8, 2004, at 4:20 PM, Charles Swiger wrote: So long as the system has enough memory available for the working sets of the processes being run, FreeBSD will use the rest of the memory for caching stuff from the filesystem without needing any special tuning. Are you sure of this? The disk

Re: Filesystem buffer size

2004-11-08 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 8, 2004, at 1:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a server thats sole purpose for existence is serving a fixed group of files from a dedicated filesystem. There is a directory tree with about 50K files that is requested in a random order. I have been trying find the correct sysctl vari

Filesystem buffer size

2004-11-08 Thread cscott
I have a server thats sole purpose for existence is serving a fixed group of files from a dedicated filesystem. There is a directory tree with about 50K files that is requested in a random order. I have been trying find the correct sysctl variable to dedicate more RAM to the filesystem buffer to