limiting Buf memory

[Lowell Gilbert]

Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at tensor.3miasto.net> writes:

> on my 1GB machine:
> 
> Mem: 529M Active, 209M Inact, 149M Wired, 38M Cache, 109M Buf, 1772K Free
> 
> while "Cache" is dynamic, Buf is not and never goes down.
> 
> how can i get it down to somehow like 40MB?

I can't think of a way to do that.
On the other hand, I can't think of a reason you would want to, either.

You have plenty of memory available, so I can't imagine why you'd want
to take the performance hit of reducing the buffer space.

And: buffer use *is* dynamic, it just tends to be more stable than cache.