Subject: Re: solaris disk I/O
To: Lars Heidieker <lars@heidieker.de>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/10/2001 11:01:38
>
> Thats new in Solaris 8 the fscache is put on the standby memory queue so it
> will be reclaimed befor paging out anything else,
> this would mean in terms of netbsd to put fscache(only) pages on the
> inactive queue...
> This would stop the fscache to grow over 1/3 of physmem if memory is short
> and it would be easly shrunk to 1/3 if more memory is needed for other
> tasks. (It still can grow to full memory size if the memory is free)
>
good solution... it will do dynamic caching but not flood everything out.