On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:15:10 -0500 Amit Kulkarni <[email protected]> wrote:
> OpenBSD just returns kernel page memory very very quickly, so it is > difficult for it to consume more :). But seriously, after this > compile, kernel was holding onto some memory. At idle (after > compilation) it was an excess of 300-500M more, instead of 1-1.3G, it > was around 1.7G. Opensolaris does aggressive caching trying to > maintain and fill out all the available RAM, but OpenBSD gives back > the memory very very quickly. concerning the file cache, sysctl kern.bufcachepercent=90 runs flawlessly; maybe worth a default setting.
