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In article <1992Nov7.111402.3490@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com writes:
>Do NOT put in a vaule greater than 255.  Values greater than 255 can
>cause you system to panic!

Really?  Wow... I had 300 buffers running for about two hours, until it
became painfully obvious that...

...having too many buffers can cause periods of intense disk activity which
can very well slow the system down.  Kinda like traffic jams; when there's an
accident, there is a definite, physical delay (like writing out a buffer),
but the delay continues long after to get everything cleared out.

If you've got 256 buffers, that's 2 megabytes of stuff to dump to disk.

Annd, if you do crash or panic (come to think of it, I can't remember if I
panic'd or not, but I did have an abormal shutdown), those 2 megabytes of
stuff probably weren't written to disk...

>andrew
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