🚀 go-pugleaf

andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) writes:

>If you have a Turbo, try turning on the "swaptimizer" (see the swaptab
>man page).  The swaptimizer compresses pages before they go out to
>disk to reduce disk IO.  This works great (I use it on my 25mhz
>machines) since you can't use the processor much during a page-fault
>(since normally the windowserver causes the page-fault, and you must
>wait to draw...), it makes sense.  It probably doesn't make sense on a
>machine where you have a bunch of people logged in on ttys.


I just checked the man page (NeXTSTEP 3.0.1) and it seems that compression
is on by default. Now, regarding the number of buffers...I have 32 Meg of
RAM in my 25MHz slab but the thing still churns like crazy when task 
switching.  What do I put in my (I assume) /etc/rc.local to increase
the number of buffers?

Dave