The number of buffers in the database cache.

The default value is DB_DEF_BUFFER_COUNT.

To provide efficient access to database files, recently used pages are kept in a cache in memory. This option controls how much memory is used by the database cache. Each buffer is the size of a page, so the total size of the cache is page_size * buffer_count.

See also:
DB_MIN_BUFFER_COUNT, DB_MAX_BUFFER_COUNT, DB_DEF_BUFFER_COUNT


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