Subject: Re: Very slow disk, part II.
To: Richard Rauch <rauch@rice.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/25/2002 21:30:49
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 02:26:44PM -0600, Richard Rauch wrote:
> [...]
> 
> Then I upgraded to NetBSD/i386 1.6.  Under 1.6, as many know, an attempt
> is made to make use of more system memory for disk caching.  (I wish that
> could be tuned down, BTW.  Oh well.)  The result is that when overnight

This is tuneable, see the vm.{anon,exec,file}(min,max) sysctls.

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