Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:29:37 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers while doing file transfers |
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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*
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