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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:
>
>>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?

Has to be done in the monitor.  Put this in with the 'p' command for
your boot command at the NeXT> prompt:

sd- nbu=xxx

where xxx is the number of buffers you want.  I'm using 64 right now
and it seems to work OK.  There isn't a really big qualitative
difference.  I haven't had to reboot the file-server, so I don't know
if it will help there...


andrew
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