Filesystem buffer size

[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 buffer cache from what I have learned 
is maxed out at 200Mb, which is a small fraction of a 4GB RAM box.

Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
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