Re: effective cache size on FreeBSD (WAS: Performance on SUSE w/ reiserfs)

From: Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
To: Postgresql Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: effective cache size on FreeBSD (WAS: Performance on SUSE w/ reiserfs)
Date: 2005-10-11 20:09:56
Message-ID: A3542834-9359-4FAC-95E4-F6EC8F635B61@khera.org
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On Oct 11, 2005, at 10:54 AM, Claus Guttesen wrote:

> Thank you for your reply. Does this apply to FreeBSD 5.4 or 6.0 on
> amd64 (or both)?
>

It applies to FreeBSD >= 5.0.

However, I have not been able to get a real answer from the FreeBSD
hacker community on what the max buffer space usage will be to
properly set this. The `sysctl -n vfs.hibufspace` / 8192 estimation
works very well for me, still, and I continue to use it.

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