buffer cache size

Michael O'Dell messy!mo at bellcore.bellcore.com
Sun May 6 22:55:41 AEST 1990


Largely speaking, if you are running 4.0 or later on your server, there
ain't no buffer cache, per se, any more!!  All of memory is simply a cache
for everything in virtual space, including files being vended by NFS.  In
4.0, buf headers are still used for outstanding I/O requests, but after
the I/O is done, the pages are in the general virtual memory cache.

SO, there is no knob to turn...

	-Mike



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