Re: Configuring a DECstation 5000/240 for use as a "server"

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From: Greg Pavlov
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:31

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In article <133198@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, kchiles@mesa.llnl.gov (Keith Chiles) writes:
> 
> I am running a DECstation 5000/200 as a server and all we did was to set the 
> buffcache to about 50% to set aside a bunch more memory for file caching.
> 
  I would like to second that.  For whatever reason, logical, obvious, or 
  otherwise, putting in extra memory for a large disk buffer makes a world
  of difference performance-wise on these machines.

  greg pavlov
  pavlov@fstrf.org

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From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov)
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Subject: Re: Configuring a DECstation 5000/240 for use as a "server"
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Date: 21 Aug 92 14:31:08 GMT
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