On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 08:25:39AM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> Isn't there REALLY a way to limit the amount of RAM used by the disk buffer
> cache?
> 
> After a full backup, _everything_ has been paged to disk and a 900 MHz
> Athlon with 384 MB RAM is much slower than a 50 MHz 486 with 16 MB and
> an older version of NetBSD.
> 
> Please tell me what the kernel option is..  I'm still running 1.5W, but
> plan to move to 1.5X soon.

Did you try playing with the vm.anonmin, vm.vtextmin and vm.vnodemin sysctls ?
Especially try increasing anonmin & vtextmin (this is an integer between 0 and
100).

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