On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 12:03:57AM -0700, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> 
> the BSD 4.4 buffer cache is the only one I know of that has a fixed size
> for all buffers, that's why this isn't so much of a problem in other
> systems.

The rest of your message seems to make sense, but I don't really buy this
part.  Even if the buffers have variable virtual size, they can't use less
virtual than physical space -- and to cache a 32K filesystem block, you
need 32K of space, right?

Thor