"Glew, Andy" wrote:
> > 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?
I believe it is static.
Normally, AFS Cache manager is started at boot time.
So, I expect that the cache size (determined in /usr/vice/etc/cachinfo)
to be "reserved" when "afsd -memcache" starts.
I guess your application using lots of RAM is started
by a user after login? In this case, I expect it gets what
has not already been allocated to the AFS RAM cache.
Perhaps, you could confirm this by testing your application?
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cheers
paul http://acm.org/~mpb
