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From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Workbench improvements (Addbuffers)
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Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 11:29:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Apr 29 11:29:50 1987
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in article <1226@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>, page@ulowell.UUCP says:
> Keywords: cache disk icon
> 
> beilke@puff.WISC.EDU (Matthew Beilke) wrote in article <693@puff.WISC.EDU>:
>>    addbuffers df1: 50		; 50 means 50K
> 
> I thought it meant 50 buffers, where a buffer is about 512 bytes.
> 
> ..Bob
> -- 
> Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.   page@ulowell.{uucp,edu,csnet} 

  Has anyone done some benchmarking to determine the optimum number of
buffers? The manual suggest something like 30 buffers. What's the best
number if you've got some RAM to burn? (I realize that disk buffers must
come out of Chip mem.)
-- 
Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland
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