On Mon, 10 May 2004, Sally Sally wrote:
> Thanks much Scott, makes sense now.
>
> You said
>
> "Now, effective_cache_size sets nothing other than itself. I.e. it
> allocates nothing in memory. It is pretty much a big course setting knob
> that tells the planner about how much memory the kernel is using to cache
> its data"
>
> So how can you know how much memory the kernel is actually using to cache
> (Solaris)? and specifically is it something you can set/change and also
> watch as it is happening with some command like top (Linux shows how much is
> cached but I don't see that in Solaris).
I'm not sure. I think vmstat can tell you that.