Re: vm.bufcache and git

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 01:24:06PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
>   Is each inode in the buffer cache really 512 bytes?

Oh, it's larger than that.  It's at least one on-disk fragment.  If you
use tmpfs, it's at least one *page*.

Systems like nbanoncvs need 4k/512 filesystems and an added buffer cache
pool for 512 byte items -- by default the smallest pool is 1K.

Thor