rjk@mrstve.UUCP (Richard Kuhns) (10/15/87)
I'd appreciate a little help on a problem with a 3b1.
I have 3.5 MB on one of these little jewels (sic), and I'd like to have the
kernal use a little more of this memory for system buffers.
The manual says to use ktune(7) -- fine. Just about everything seems
to get smaller after I reboot, tho.
I called the hotline. They tell me that I have 57K to play with, so
trying to tell the kernal to use 500 buffers (at 1K each) is
ridiculous. I can have at most 157. OK, I set nbuf to 150.
After rebooting, ktune -d reported:
KTUNE DEFAULT
nbuf 112 100
ninode 300 400
nfile 225 300
nproc 75 100
ntext 56 75
nclist 112 150
npbuf 12 16
ncall 24 32
What's the deal? Can anyone help with this, or offer any (useful :-)
suggestions? The machine is useable as is, but it seems I should see
a fairly large improvement in speed if I could just increase the number
of system buffers, and I have the memory to support it.
Oh, I'm running 3.5.1.3. I'd be running 3.51, but we haven't received
our new Development Kit yet.
As always, any help would be greatly appreciated.
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