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- From: jtduran@athena.mit.edu (Jason Tomas Duran)
- Subject: Re: Speed of 3.0 relative to 2.X
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.010903.29730@athena.mit.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Sloan School of Management
- References: <1993Jan1.193902.2071@nextdoor.com> <C07qDD.Hot@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <C0Cqvx.IoK@ns1.nodak.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:09:03 GMT
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- In article <C0Cqvx.IoK@ns1.nodak.edu> klakeman@plains.NoDak.edu (Keith N. Lakeman) writes:
- >In article <C07qDD.Hot@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes:
- >>john@nextdoor.com (John McCracken) writes:
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- >>>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?
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- >>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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- The original warning was for machines with 16 or less MB of RAM
- I believe. I have been running with 512 buffers on my mono 25mhz slab
- with 32MB for a few months and haven't panic'd once or had any other problems
- I could remotely attribute to buffer problems...
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- <jt>
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