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- From: jr@sade.ka.sub.org (Jochen Richter)
- Subject: Re: How to set nbuf=64 as default?
- References: <22OCT199214011322@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 06:36:18 GMT
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- In article <22OCT199214011322@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov> silbar@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov
- (Dick Silbar) writes:
- > This probably has been covered in the earlier thread on how to speed up
- > execution under 3.0 by booting (from the NeXT> prompt) with
- >
- > bsd sdmach nbuf=64
- >
- > (instead of the default nbuf=16). But how does one set the default?
- > I tried last night to set the configuration parameters (with NeXT>p)
- > I found nothing that referred to setting nbuf. And, setting the boot
- > command to 'sd nbuf=64' (and variations) did nothing. [It all had to be
- > set back to 'sd' to work again.]
- >
- > Anybody know?
- >
- > Dick Silbar
-
- Set a hard link on sdmach, i.e. k (for kernel).
- Then type NeXT>p and set:
-
- sd k nb=999.
-
- Set any number up to 999. The problem is that there are only 11 (!) characters
- allowed as input for this command.
-
- Jochen
-
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