Re: Speed of 3.0 relative to 2.X

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From: Otto J. Makela
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 11:14

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Quite some time ago, jim@ljkiraly.lerc.nasa.gov (L J "Jim" Kiraly) wrote...
[re adding memory to get better speed]
>Didn't need to yet!  I changed the boot procedure to use 32 instead of 16  
>buffers and got a major speedup and overall improved performance. (e.g.
>"CMD~"; during reboot; and then "bsd sdmach -nbuf=32" )  This seems to
>remain set between restart/reboots although I haven't actually power cylced
>things yet.

I just upgraded to NS3.0, and tried this to see if I could pep it up a bit...
I end up with "init exited" (as it did also with NS2.1), and it obviously
doesn't boot.

Monochrome NeXTstation with 32Mbytes of memory.  Ideas, anyone?
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From: otto@jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Subject: Re: Speed of 3.0 relative to 2.X
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 11:14:44 GMT
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