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From: draper@buster.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J Draper)
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Subject: Re: Another QEMM problem.
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Date: 4 May 91 05:52:05 GMT
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In article <1991May3.205700.8459@cs.dal.ca> lane@cs.dal.ca (John Wright/Dr. Pat Lane) writes:
>
>Getting further off the topic, does anyone have an opinion on the merits
>of FASTOPEN in general, especially combined with SMARTDRV, BUFFERS= and
>other various caching mechanisms?

I've found fastopen to be of little value, and besides that it crashes
for any reason at all.

About smartdrv, pc-cache, etc:  Everyone I know recommends that you set
buffers=4 or some other low number when using these things, but I have
found that leaving buffers at about 20 will speed things up, even with a
2 meg cache.


>
>Any info will be appreciated.  If you can, please mail me a copy of anything
>you post in response to this.  Thanks.
>
>-- 
>
>John Wright      ////////////////////////   If it's not Scottish, it's CRAP!!!
>Post: c/o Dr Pat Lane, Biology Dept, Dalhousie U, Halifax N.S., CANADA B3H-4H8 
>Internet: lane@cs.dal.ca   Uucp: lane@dalcs.uucp or {uunet watmath}!dalcs!lane


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Patrick Draper     "College is supposed to prepare you for the future,
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draper@cps.msu.edu      -- My GrandPa, age 85, Fall 1990 graduate
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