[CLUE-Tech] Yet another reason Linux is so cool

[grant]

Last night I installed a new hard drive.  When I tried to tell BIOS about
through the CMOS settings, the machine refused to boot.  It would not even
finish BIOS checking.  I tried it on its own controller, as a slave,
everything.  It would not boot in autodetect mode, or even if I told it
all of the drive parameters.

Well, I jumpered it for slave, and booted off my old drive.  Then I fired
up fdisk.  It found it fine.  Then I made my partitions, made filesystems,
copied over my /home, and remounted things.

It works great.  A 45GB drive in an old Celeron 366.  Now it just needs
more memory.

Now for the question: 
I was copying over huge files and lots of them from a wintel box using
Samba.  The buffers got HUGE.  This left no space for filesystemn
cache.  The machine started to drag at that point.

Is there any way to tune this?  Do I just need to throw more memory at
it?  It has 128 now.

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