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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to increase buffer size in Unix Post 302101893 by suntac on Friday 5th of January 2007 10:20:57 AM
Old 01-05-2007
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Originally Posted by ziabegg
The "top" command shows that my buffer size is always at 137M, which I think has reached to the maximum. However, Ido have lots of Inative memory? Is it possible to increae the buffer size? and what is the command for that? Further, this is the buffer for writing to the hard disk?

you might want to look at this article: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2770 it is about optimizing Linux Memory Usage.

Regards, Johan Louwers.

***Moderators note: Signature removed from post -- reborg.

Last edited by reborg; 01-05-2007 at 03:18 PM..
 

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News::Scan::Article(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  News::Scan::Article(3pm)

NAME
News::Scan::Article - collect information about news articles SYNOPSIS
use News::Scan::Article; my $art = News::Scan::Article->new( ARG, [ OPTIONS, ] SCAN ); DESCRIPTION
This module provides a derived class of "Mail::Internet" whose objects are suitable for digesting Usenet news articles. CONSTRUCTOR
new ( ARG, [ OPTIONS, ] SCAN-OBJ ) The "ARG" and "OPTIONS" parameters are identical to those required by "Mail::Internet", except "ARG" is required. See Mail::Internet. The "SCAN" parameter should be a "News::Scan" object. See News::Scan. If the article falls into the period of interest for "SCAN", the object is returned, else "undef". METHODS
group ( [ SCAN-OBJ ] ) Sets or returns an object's group depending on whether "SCAN-OBJ" is present. author Returns the article's author represented as a "Mail::Address" object. message_id Returns the article's Message-ID. subject Returns the article's subject. newsgroups Returns the list of newsgroups this article was posted to. size Returns the size of this article in bytes. header_size Returns the size of this article's header in bytes. header_lines Returns the number of lines consumed in this article by headers. body_size Returns the size of this article's body in bytes. body_lines Returns the number of lines consumed in this article by the body. orig_size Returns the size of this article's original content in bytes. See "QuoteRE" in News::Scan. orig_lines Returns the number of lines consumed in this article by original content. Keep in mind that original content is a subset of the body. sig_size Returns the size of this article'ss signature in bytes. sig_lines Returns the number of lines consumed in this article by the signature. SEE ALSO
News::Scan, Mail::Internet, Mail::Address AUTHOR
Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1997 Greg Bacon. All Rights Reserved. This library is free software. You may distribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.10.1 2000-08-09 News::Scan::Article(3pm)
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