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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Huge caches?
Date: 24 May 1996 21:15:09 GMT
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caddy@osprey.unf.edu (Cliff Addy) wrote:

> We just brought up a new web server using FreeBSD with Apache 1.0.
> I just ran top and see that we have 38 megs of ram used as cache!
> There's a total of 64 megs on the machine and less than a meg is
> free.

> Is this normal?  I *hope* those caches are dynamic.

Yep.
Yep.

Unused memory will serve as file system buffer cache.  For a Web
server, buffer cache is certainly the most important memory you need.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)