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Scott Hess (scott@nic.gac.edu) wrote:
: Could anyone elaborate on any and all performance improvements
: noted?  My sneaking suspicion is that this is like memory upgrades
: from 16M to 32M - 8M to 16M is obvious, but it took me around a
: month to really realize that the 32M was quite a bit better than
: the 16M.

{munch}

: In any case, I noted _no_ difference in compilation speed.  The
: CPU utilization appeared to be slightly better with more buffers,
: but it's not really enough that I'd be confident in recommending
: pumping the values up too high.  64 would probably be great, but
: higher values didn't seem to help very much at all.  Of course,
: this might all be a result of something else entirely - but I'm
: tired of rebooting my computer, so we won't find that out from me ...

I happen to feed a large amount of UUCP news/mail -- about 45.66M just for
yesterday alone.  When C-news gets going -- batching, sending, sorting and
compressing -- there's a LOT of SCSI action.  I applied the patch to try it
out, and I felt that it did _marginally_ help.  I only have 20M RAM on my
NSmono.  It helped to speed up the VM swapping a bit, and allowed the programs
I was running faster access (despite all the news activity).

Your mileage may vary.
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