Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.6 Release Schedule
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/19/2002 16:20:47
Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net> writes:
> > > > I'm hoping we move to RC "soon".
> > > >
> > > i hope UBC will be really fixed. present behavior is inacceptable.
> >
> > UBC seems to be working fine. What do you think is wrong with it? Or
> 
> not only think but see and already did send-pr.

Well, I've done tests, and from what I can tell, it just sn't true.

> > is this your claim that the max/min memory usage sysctls aren't working?
> 
> yes it is. try vm.filemin=1 and vm.filemax=2 and then copy something
> large.

If you set vm.filemax to 2, you'll end up totally thrashing. You'll
have practically no buffer cache at all. Why would you do such a
thing?

> even if most of memory is used by apps they will be swapped and file usage
> exceeds 20% !!!

How are you measuring that?

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