Re: FreeBSD config

Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

> Dror Matalon wrote:
>
>> I've read Matt Dillon's discussion about the freebsd VM at
>> http://www.daemonnews.org/200001/freebsd_vm.html and I didn't see him
>> saying that Freebsd uses all the free RAM for disk cache. Would you care
>> to provide a URL pointing to that?
>
>
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Quoting from http://www.daemonnews.org/200001/freebsd_vm.html :

<snip>*
When To Free a Page*

Since the VM system uses all available memory for disk caching, there
are usually very few truly-free pages...
</snip>

Got to say - a very interesting discussion you have all being having, I
am now quite confused about what those vfs.*buf* variables actually do...

Please feed back any clarfications from the FreeBSD experts to this list!

regards

Mark