Re: MFS question - FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT

From: Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd5_at_klop.yi.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:03:40 +0100
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:16:14 +0000, Rob MacGregor 
<rob_macgregor_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

>> From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy_at_optushome.com.au>
>>
>> Note that softupdates will not perform any physical writes for short-
>> lived (say less than 30 seconds) files.
>
> That's worth knowing - do you know how big the buffer is likely to be?  
> I'm thinking worst case of a 10 MB zip in an email, maybe expanding to 
> 20 MB.

The buffer is the file cache of freebsd. Run 'top' and you see how big 
your cache is.

-- 
  Ronald Klop
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Received on Thu Jan 22 2004 - 13:04:13 UTC

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