RE: AFS slowness

[Glew, Andy]

> If you are going to try this, IMHO, you need a machine with 
> plenty of RAM.
> It worked for me with 256MB AFS RAM cache on 1GB RAM
> IBM RISC System/6000 (now ancient) model 930.

Does the allocation of 256MB of AFS RAM cache
reserve physical memory? Is it static, i.e. if
I have an application that really needs to use a lot 
of physical RAM, will the size of the AFS RAM cache
be dynamically reduced?