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From: coherent!hastings@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Reed Hastings)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Tuning minfree?
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 26 Apr 89 07:15:08 GMT
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Can anyone tell me how to tune minfree, desfree, and lotsfree for running
one large program on a Sun with 24 megs of memory.  I want the large
program to get more of memory than is normally allowed, as it's the only
thing running that I care about.  What are the trade-offs in such tuning?


The large program is a version of Lisp,  on a 3/60 still running 3.5 if
that matters.  Many thanks for any insights you have.

-Reed

Reed Hastings
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