Re: How Slow is NeXTSTEP 3.0 w/ 8 megs ram?

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From: Booker C. Bense
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 15:03

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- 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. 

- 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

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