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Article #1471Re: Speed of 3.0 relative to 2.X
From: Gordon Van Huizen
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:22
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:22
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In article <1992Dec29.111444.17399@jyu.fi> otto@jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes: > 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. The correct syntax is "bsd sdmach nbuf=32", without the "-" prior to nbuf. Gordon -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Van Huizen vox: 619.488.9411 fax: 619.488.3045 Metrosoft gvh@metrosoft.com [NeXTmail welcome] ----------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!cook!psinntp!psinntp!hd0258!gvh From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Speed of 3.0 relative to 2.X Message-ID: <1992Dec29.172239.6514@metrosoft.com> Date: 29 Dec 92 17:22:39 GMT References: <1992Dec29.111444.17399@jyu.fi> Sender: gvh@metrosoft.com Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen) Organization: Metrosoft Lines: 26