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From: stuart@loddon.demon.co.uk (Stuart Broderick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Increasing cache ?
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 20:31:06 GMT
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Thanks for the info.

Stuart.
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roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) wrote:

>In article <823673122.24218@loddon.demon.co.uk>,
>Stuart Broderick <stuart@loddon.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Is there a kernel parameter (or something else) to define how much of
>> the available memory can be used as cache ? On some UNIXes there is a
>> parameter to do this.

>You don't  need a parameter  on  FreeBSD. FreeBSD  has a unified  VM/buffer
>cache system where all available mmory can be used a buffer cache.

>[[ cc'ed to Stuart ]]
>-- 
>Ollivier ROBERT  -=-=-  FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=-  roberto@freebsd.org
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