<shan(at)ceedees(dot)com> writes:
> Hello All,
> I had been following the discussion on improving the
> performance of the database. I was wondering what the buffer field in the
> vmstat output refers to.
It's equivalent to the 'buffers' column in the output from 'free'
(under Linux at least). It refers to part of the memory used for
caching disk data.
-Doug
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