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From: jay@ethos.UUCP (Jay Denebeim)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: Hard disk write speed on 6300
Message-ID: <454@ethos.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Mar-86 13:41:41 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 16 13:41:41 1986
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	It sounds like too many buffers to me.  Under MS-DOS, if the number of
buffers becomes too large, the system bogs down.  I haven't heard a good
explanation for it to act this way.  In my experiences, 20 buffers, and 15
files gives about the best performance with a 10 meg hard disk.


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