On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 15:12:24 +0000 (UTC), Frederick Bruckman
<fredb@immanent.net> wrote:
> Oh, I know that one.  It's the amount used by the Universal Buffer Cache,
> i.e. the file cache.  When you write a file "to disk", it's still in the
> file cache for a while, so you can read it back quickly without actually
> touching the disk. It's called "universal" because there used to be many
> caches for individual file systems and other things, but now they can all
> share. It's also a "buffer", so that the driver can re-order writes.

thanks Frederick.
Is there a way flush the "Universal Buffer Cache" or do I need to?
When I transfer many files at once, say using 'scp' the cache goes
_way_ up and stays there for a long time.

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