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more physical memory up to a point, will enable the file system cache to grow even larger, up
to these stated maximums.
On a server with a lot of physical memory (2 GB or more), it may be preferable to leave the
option Maximize data throughput for file sharing selected (that is, as long as the total
amount of memory used by the operating system and server applications does not exceed
the amount of physical RAM minus 960 MB). In fact, any application server that can have 960
MB or more of RAM unused, will likely improve performance by enabling the large system
cache.
By enabling this, all of the disk and network I/O performance benefits of using a large file
system cache are realized, and the application ...