Re: How to set maximum disk cache size?

On 16/11/2007, Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ivan Voras wrote:

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

I read this too but I don't understand. Too difficult for me.

So what is the answer? Do I need to set a sysctl or will FreeBSD use all
available free memory for caching file data from disk?

You don't need to change anything, it's the default state.
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