Re: Forcing buffer cache to use available memory

2007-10-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello, Is there a way to force the buffer cache to be more aggressive when caching reads? Or even just plain force a certain number of megabytes to be dedicated to the buffer cache? it is. sometimes too aggressive. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Forcing buffer cache to use available memory

2007-09-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Peter Schuller wrote: Is there a way to force the buffer cache to be more aggressive when caching reads? Or even just plain force a certain number of megabytes to be dedicated to the buffer cache? You want to adjust the vfs.read_max sysctl, I believe, or the vfs.maxbufspace for your second

Re: Forcing buffer cache to use available memory

2007-09-30 Thread Peter Schuller
You want to adjust the vfs.read_max sysctl, I believe, or the vfs.maxbufspace for your second question. sysctl -d vfs is likely to be informative Thanks! That looks like what I'm after. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: