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- From: bugs@atlantis.uucp (Dan Berry)
- Subject: Re: Ramdisk coming for NeXT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.005540.7955@atlantis.uucp>
- Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- References: <SCOTT.92Aug17092422@nic.gac.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 00:55:40 GMT
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- Scott Hess (scott@nic.gac.edu) wrote:
- : Could anyone elaborate on any and all performance improvements
- : noted? My sneaking suspicion is that this is like memory upgrades
- : from 16M to 32M - 8M to 16M is obvious, but it took me around a
- : month to really realize that the 32M was quite a bit better than
- : the 16M.
-
- {munch}
-
- : In any case, I noted _no_ difference in compilation speed. The
- : CPU utilization appeared to be slightly better with more buffers,
- : but it's not really enough that I'd be confident in recommending
- : pumping the values up too high. 64 would probably be great, but
- : higher values didn't seem to help very much at all. Of course,
- : this might all be a result of something else entirely - but I'm
- : tired of rebooting my computer, so we won't find that out from me ...
-
- I happen to feed a large amount of UUCP news/mail -- about 45.66M just for
- yesterday alone. When C-news gets going -- batching, sending, sorting and
- compressing -- there's a LOT of SCSI action. I applied the patch to try it
- out, and I felt that it did _marginally_ help. I only have 20M RAM on my
- NSmono. It helped to speed up the VM swapping a bit, and allowed the programs
- I was running faster access (despite all the news activity).
-
- Your mileage may vary.
- --
- Dan Berry == President, NeXT Edmonton Owners Network / UofA Computers Tech.
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- "On a first date, watch how your date treats the waiter, the bartender,
- and so on. That's how she'll be treating YOU after three months."
-