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- 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
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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
-
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