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From: larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Tuning information for ISC 386/ix
Summary: tuning of 386/ix system
Message-ID: <111010@nstar.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 89 12:08:09 GMT
References: <38451@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Organization: The Northern Star, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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In article <38451@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost) writes:
> I recently installed Interactive Systems Corp's 386/ix version 2.0.2
> on my 386 machine.  Unfortunately my machine has only 4mb and I'm
> trying to run X.
> 
> I think that this is the result of improper tuning (what in hell could
> it be *doing* while it's hanging?), but I'm from the BSD world and
> have no idea how to tune a SysV kernel.

Jim, did you trying re-configuring the kernel using the default tuning
parameters for a system with 4 megabytes of memory?


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