On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Vesbula wrote:

> > Compile-time kernel defines are described in
> > options(4).

> I maybe try to shrink my 7M GENERIC... Another thing I
> noticed in dmesg:
> using 4935 buffers containing 19740 KB of memory
> What is this memory doing? Can I set it to say 1M?

See the descriptions of NBUF, BUFPAGES and BUFCACHE
in options(4). That's basically what you're allocating
percentages of when you tweak "vm.*{min,max}". If you
make it too small, you'll have lots of "free" memory
that even your program won't be able to use, so that
would seem to be counter-productive.

Frederick