On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:27:43AM -0500, Gary Thorpe wrote:
> So what exaqctly is the point of UBC if you have to manually configure
> how much buffer cache your system will use? Is file system I/O and
> device buffering now unified, but not much else (and was this this case
> before anyway)? How is this different from the compile-time setting
> used in 1.5?

The buffer memory is still used to buffer filesystem metadata. For example,
on a filesystem with lots of small files you may want to bump the
buffer cache size to be able to buffer more directories.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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