Re: Speed of 3.0 relative to 2.X

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From: Jason Tomas Duran
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 01:09

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In article <C0Cqvx.IoK@ns1.nodak.edu> klakeman@plains.NoDak.edu (Keith N. Lakeman) writes:
>In article <C07qDD.Hot@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes:
>>john@nextdoor.com (John McCracken) writes:
>>
>>>In article <1992Dec30.103733.1133@marcon.ka.sub.org> emarinos@marcon.ka.sub.org  
>>>(Evstathios Marinos) writes:
>>>> When you set the buffers to values > 255 you will get problems.
>>>Like what?
>>
>>Like your machine crashing all the time for no apparent reason.  I
>>have seen a posting by a NeXT engineer (don't remember where,
>>though) to this effect. 
>
>I'm running my NeXTstation (32MB RAM) with 256 buffers and not having
>any noticable problems.  Is this truely a bad thing to do?

	The original warning was for machines with 16 or less MB of RAM
I believe. I have been running with 512 buffers on my mono 25mhz slab
with 32MB for a few months and haven't panic'd once or had any other problems
I could remotely attribute to buffer problems...

	<jt>

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