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- From: otto@jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
- Subject: Re: Speed of 3.0 relative to 2.X
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.111444.17399@jyu.fi>
- Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software
- Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 11:14:44 GMT
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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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