On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 10:38:17AM -0600, Wenchi Liao wrote:
> I saw Be demo once, and the guy said BeOS uses as much free ram
> as possible for cache, and scale back the size of the cache as
> memory-needs increase. To my naive ears, this sounds like a
> better strategy when dealing with free memory (if it's there,
> why not use it?). Comments?

You're right, and not the first person to think of that :-) The code
to do this (and other things) in NetBSD exists, on the "ubc" CVS
branch. It looks like it will be brought in immediately after 1.5,
for inclusion in 2.0.

- Frank