Esix verses the rest of 386-unix

[Martin J. Schedlbauer]

In article <294 at rancor.UUCP> bob at rancor.UUCP (Bob Willcox) writes:
>In article <1991Mar10.211104.9790 at cimcor.mn.org> mike at cimcor.mn.org (Michael Grenier) writes:
>
>Since I only use FFS, I set NBUF low (100, probably could have gone
>lower though) since I don't think they are being used.  (Does anyone
>know if the 1KB buffers are ever used if you don't have any S51K 
>filesystems?)
>

I once tried to set that value to about 30 (Esix) and then the system wouldn't
boot. It seems that during the initial boot it uses some of these buffers. I
guess there was a reason why the Esix folks set it the minumum to 100 in mtune:)

	...Martin



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