Re: Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers while doing file transfers

Rik van Riel
2002-09-27T18:24:44Z

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> FreeBSD has several algorithms in its VM to prevent a single process
> from holding onto too many dirty buffers. FreeBSD, Solaris, True64,
> even WindowsNT have effective algorithms for sanely retiring dirty
> buffers without saturating the system.

I guess those must be bad for dbench, bonnie or other critical
server applications ;)

*runs like hell*

Rik
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