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Article #3152Re: How to set nbuf=64 as default?
From: Jochen Richter
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 06:36
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 06:36
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In article <22OCT199214011322@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov> silbar@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov
(Dick Silbar) writes:
> This probably has been covered in the earlier thread on how to speed up
> execution under 3.0 by booting (from the NeXT> prompt) with
>
> bsd sdmach nbuf=64
>
> (instead of the default nbuf=16). But how does one set the default?
> I tried last night to set the configuration parameters (with NeXT>p)
> I found nothing that referred to setting nbuf. And, setting the boot
> command to 'sd nbuf=64' (and variations) did nothing. [It all had to be
> set back to 'sd' to work again.]
>
> Anybody know?
>
> Dick Silbar
Set a hard link on sdmach, i.e. k (for kernel).
Then type NeXT>p and set:
sd k nb=999.
Set any number up to 999. The problem is that there are only 11 (!) characters
allowed as input for this command.
Jochen
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