Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!killer!vector!rpp386!pigs!haugj From: haugj@pigs.UUCP (The Beach Bum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Size of kernels Summary: turning off automatic buffer allocation ... Message-ID: <404@pigs.UUCP> Date: 13 Sep 88 14:36:34 GMT References: <1843@spdcc.COM> Reply-To: haugj@pigs.UUCP (The Beach Bum) Organization: The Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers Lines: 15 In article <1843@spdcc.COM> dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes: >A number of data structures, in particular disk buffers, are sized dynamically >at boot time depending on the amount of physical memory installed. > >This is a Feature. this Feature can be disabled by specifying the exact number of block buffers you want at sysgen time. if NBUF (or whatever) is set to 0, the system will allocate 10% of the physical memory for buffers. if it is set to any other number, you get that many buffers. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-The Beach Bum at The Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers-=-=-=-=-=-= Very Long Address: John.F.Haugh@rpp386.dallas.tx.us Very Short Address: jfh@rpp386 "ANSI C: Just say no" -- Me