Subject: Re: NetBSD - ready for prime-time fileserving?
To: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 10/07/1999 16:57:26
Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl> writes:
> For a fileserver, that isn't doing much else, increasing the size
> of the static buffer cache that we still have (but looking at
> Chuq's UBC stuff not for long anymore) will work OK to boost
> performance.

Of course, at least on some ports (most notably i386), if you've got a
gig of ram, or even 512MB or 256MB, what fraction can you actually
throw at buffer cache?

last i saw, it wasn't particularly large due to KVM issues...


cgd
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