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- From: klakeman@plains.NoDak.edu (Keith N. Lakeman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
- Subject: Re: Speed of 3.0 relative to 2.X
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- Date: 4 Jan 93 23:07:09 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec30.103733.1133@marcon.ka.sub.org> <1993Jan1.193902.2071@nextdoor.com> <C07qDD.Hot@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- 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.
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- I'm running my NeXTstation (32MB RAM) with 256 buffers and not having
- any noticable problems. Is this truely a bad thing to do?
-
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