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In article <2131@deadmin.ucsd.edu> bense@heart3.ucsd.edu (Booker C. Bense)  
writes:
> - I have both an '030 with 12meg and an '040 slab with 20meg. 
> One thing I have found that greatly improves the speed of both
> machines under 3.0 is to :
> 
> a.) Backup up everything and reload the disk from scratch. 
> 
> 
> b.) Use the following when booting 
> 
> Next> bsd sdmach nbuf=64
> 
> or whatever suites your fancy, the default number of system buffers is
> 16. Using the nbuf keyword GREATLY improves the ablility of 3.0 to do
> context switching. It's like going from an 8meg slab to a 20 meg slab.
> 
> - Some people have reported using as high a number as 1000. I use 64
> since the rom will only remember 12 chars. I tried 99 for a while,
> but there was no noticable difference between 64 and 99. 

You can say "sd- nbu=128" for three digits of buffer!

> 
> - Booker C. Bense               "News, News, It's long, It's ASCII?,  
> prefered: benseb@grumpy.sdsc.edu   It's Wood. News, News, It's better
> NeXT Mail: benseb@next.sdsc.edu      than bad, It's Good!"  Ren&Stimpy

Jim

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