Subject: Re: bufcache question ..
To: John Franklin <franklin@elfie.org>
From: Sean Davis <dive@endersgame.net>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/29/2003 17:32:45
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:24:11PM -0500, John Franklin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:06:28PM -0600, Stephen M. Jones wrote:
> > I was told that the nfsd send error 55 were due to bufcache being set too
> 
> There are NFS issues with it set too low.  I don't recall if send error
> 55 is one of them.
> 
> > low.  I should bump up BUFCACHE to 20 or 25 .. would that seem reasonable?
> 
> I haven't tried it on Alpha, but i386 can't set BUFCACHE above 128M
> (unless this has been fixed recently.)  The result is an unbootable
> kernel.
> 

It can't be above 128M on Alpha either. A friend of mine tried to do this and
got what you said, an unbootable kernel.

-Sean

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