Subject: Re: Did lunch - and was told ISA != 16+ meg
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@teeri.jmp.fi>
From: Alec H. Peterson <chuckie@panix.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/04/1996 09:49:42
Jukka Marin writes:
>
>This is slightly off-topic, but is there a simple way to tell NetBSD to
>devote a larger portion of RAM to disk buffers?  A news server can live
>with 32 MB RAM, so I'd like to give the other 32 megs to disk buffering.
>How to?

It is definitely possible to increase the buffer cache size, I imagine
the relavent code is in machdep.c, tho I could be wrong.  A co-worker
of mine recently did this, so I'll write back his findings if someone
else doesn't get to it first.

Alec

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