Subject: Re: solaris disk I/O
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/10/2001 11:32:56
> > could such behavior (large/small files) be somewhat implemented? i've
> > tested -current integrated VM/disk cache and it's almost unusable. copying
> > 500MB files means wiping out everything from memory to swap.
> > like in windoze.
> > it's bad to see netbsd is worse in new version.
>
> You have sysctls to tune this.
can i set "priority" of buffer caches?
looks i can only set min/max which in turn is like older preallocated
cache which size cah be changed runtime