From: Sweeney among nightingales (shem@ranganathan.oulu.fi)
Date: 04/21/93 

From: shem@ranganathan.oulu.fi (Sweeney among nightingales)
Subject: Re: Q: ext2fs read/write speed
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 07:53:11 GMT

In article <SCT.93Apr20222112@damsay.dcs.ed.ac.uk> sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) writes:

   This is only a problem when the amount of data you are accessing is
   too great to fit into the buffer cache. If you have enough memory,
   Linux will cache up to 6MB of the most recently accessed data.

Hm. Why only 6M? I upgraded to 16M and noticed that buffer cache won't
grow larger than 6144K. Is there a reason to this and can I configure
the kernel to use more memory in caching?

-Janne