Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.6 Release Schedule
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/20/2002 13:06:37
> >
> > possibly. i use up to 4-8MB as larger doesn't make real speedup on average
> > work.
>
> I use 20M or larger. With soft updates it makes a real difference when  working
> on trees with lots of files. It also makes a difference for a busy mail server.

that's right. and in that case (tons of small files) delays can happen
even on 4MB cache. but they were never SO HUGE.


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