Re: Nitro

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From: Todd A Green
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 14:59

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In article <1992Oct7.030838.9785@u.washington.edu> basiji@stein.u.washington.edu (David Basiji) writes:
>andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) writes:
>
>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.  
>

Not according to the docs that I read (Dev Release Notes OperatingSystem.rtf):

	Compressed swapping is enabled automatically on monochrome machines
	that have up to 12 megabytes and on color machines that have up to 16
	megabytes. 

Thus if you have 32Meg, compression is not on by default.

Todd
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