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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.
> 
> Monochrome NeXTstation with 32Mbytes of memory.  Ideas, anyone?

1.) Go in the ROM-Monitor (read the Admin-Ref for how to do that)
2.) Change the bootparameter ("p")
    sd- nbu=32	# or any other number, I use 96 (=0x60).
                  (With 32MB, I'd use 128 buffers...)
    (This also works for numbers >99, nbuf=... does not.)

It will speed the I/O up, BUT (!) remember that you risk more when your machine
crashes!

	Have fun, Gerhard.
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