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- From: andrew@cubetech.com
- Subject: Re: How to set nbuf=64 as default?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.111402.3490@cubetech.com>
- Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
- References: <22OCT199214011322@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov> <1992Nov5.063618.11901@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 11:14:02 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1992Nov5.063618.11901@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org> jr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org writes:
- >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.
-
- please don't do this. Just type this:
-
- sd- nbu=xxx
-
- Do NOT put in a vaule greater than 255. Values greater than 255 can
- cause you system to panic!
-
- You don't need to hardlink a new kernel...
-
- andrew
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