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From: james@ulticorp.UUCP (James Rigger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.unix.large
Subject: Large amount of buffer cache
Keywords: cache buffer performance HP-UX
Message-ID: <499@ulticorp.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 91 18:38:56 GMT
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Organization: The Ultimate Corp., East Hanover, NJ
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I posted a similar question several days ago and am not sure of my success.
I am a new usenet user an may have fouled up - soffr if so.

I am encountering a system which has 128 meg of 256 devoted to buffer cache.
The system is running HP-UX 7.xx and has mirrored disks.  Does anyone know
of possible performance issues due to such a large pool of cache?  Will
such a large amount of cache cause the cache searches to wind up slower
than requesting disk to feed the information to a smaller pool?