On Tuesday 03 April 2001  2:01 pm, "Jaromr" Dolecek wrote:
> I think there should be some minimal value of memory dedicated to
> buffer cache (i.e. what BUFCACHE/BUFPAGES does) and more memory
> would only be used if it's otherwise _unused at all_.
> Perhaps this might be an option, but such behaviour should be default IMHO.

I believe that HP-UX does something similair.  It's got kernel parameters of 
ubc_min and ubc_max. I think it's min of 20% and max of 50% by default, which 
seems to work, but I've never benchmarked it.

Cheers,
Chris