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- From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Subject: Re: Xtra Mem make a Diff ?
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 10:08:30 GMT
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- pcwood@romulus (Paul Wood) writes:
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- >I have a IIci with 20 Megs of RAM, I cannot notice a difference
- >with all this memory than when i had just 8 megs. Is ther something I
- >I have a IIci with 20 Megs of RAM, I cannot notice a difference
- >am not doing. I have rebuilt the kernel and used kconfig to up my
- >NBUF setting. I have the new 230 MB HD internal and a Maxtor 213
- >External. Any hints on how to maximize my systems performance
- >would be greatly appreciated.
-
- There comes a point when extra memory just becomes extra memory, i.e.,
- extra RAM to work with. Expanding buffers and the like would make no
- difference since you run up against the speed limit of the system in
- question. At this point, your extra memory can be used to increase
- Finder memory (i.e. run more MacOS programs) or alleviate swapping.
-
- It's possible, also, that the new NBUF setting is not that much larger
- than it was.
-
- You might want to set up accounting to see where any bottlenecks are...
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- Jim Jagielski NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4
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