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- From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: Configuring a DECstation 5000/240 for use as a "server"
- Message-ID: <1270@niktow.canisius.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 14:31:08 GMT
- References: <713790710snx@dojo.mi.org> <133198@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
- Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208
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- In article <133198@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, kchiles@mesa.llnl.gov (Keith Chiles) writes:
- >
- > I am running a DECstation 5000/200 as a server and all we did was to set the
- > buffcache to about 50% to set aside a bunch more memory for file caching.
- >
- I would like to second that. For whatever reason, logical, obvious, or
- otherwise, putting in extra memory for a large disk buffer makes a world
- of difference performance-wise on these machines.
-
- greg pavlov
- pavlov@fstrf.org
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