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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:30 Sep 2001 at 11:24:29
Subject:Re: [amigactive] Buffers

Ken Walsh said,

> On 25-Sep-01, Neil Bothwick wrote:

>> You can always use more memory. Increase your hard drive buffers, make
>> more programs resident. There are many ways to use RAM to speed up the
>> overall operation of an Amiga. The last thing you should use it for is
>> to increase the numbers in the title bar.

> I thought about this and went to HDTools and changed my buffers in my
> settings. Workbench was on 80 and all the other 3 partitions were on 500

> I made them a 1000 what would be a good setting seeing I have 128 fast ram,
> I use shapeshifter/netscape a lot so that does use a lot up.

If you use Shapeshifter with a hardfile, increase the buffers to the
maximum.

> I use PFS3 and have a Blizzard1260

The max for PFS3 is 600 buffers (they are 1K as opposed to the 512 bytes
of FFS buffers).

Cheers

Neil



Neil Bothwick - New Media Editor, Amiga Active Magazine

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