Re: FreeBSD config - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Mark Kirkwood
Subject Re: FreeBSD config
Date
Msg-id 4042F213.7040106@paradise.net.nz
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In response to Re: FreeBSD config  (Dror Matalon <dror@zapatec.com>)
List pgsql-performance

>I noticed this passage too, but ...
>
>
>>Quoting from http://www.daemonnews.org/200001/freebsd_vm.html :
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>><snip>*
>>When To Free a Page*
>>
>>Since the VM system uses all available memory for disk caching, there
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>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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>The VM system, as you can see from the article, is focused on paging and
>caching the programs and program data. Is the cache for disk reads and
>writes thrown into the mix as well?
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>
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Yes - that is the real question. The following link :

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/vm-cache.html

and the few "next" pages afterward talk about a unified buffer cache i.e
file buffer cache is part of the KVM system which is part of the VM
system - but this does not seem to preclude those vfs.*buf* variables
limiting the size of the file buffer cache... hmm ... so no real
decrease of confusion at this end.. :-)

Mark



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