Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.6 Release Schedule
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/19/2002 22:25:13
> > > 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.

do you like remote shell on my machine?


>
> > > 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

why? 2% of 128MB RAM is 2.5MB. 3 is near 4MB

i used NetBSD 1.5.2 with 4MB buffer cache and it worked really fine.

with 2MB too.

> 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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