Subject: Re: bufpages
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: Tom T. Thai <tomthai@future.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/02/1998 03:20:52
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Jukka Marin wrote:

> I want to improve performance of a largish news server which has 80 MB
> of RAM.  According to options(4), I have to set options NBUF and/or
> BUFPAGES.  However, there is no information of the range of these
> constants - not even in the sample kerne config files.
> 
> I'm building a NetBSD 1.3.2 kernel.  How should I set these constants?

maxusers        200             # estimated number of users
options         NMBCLUSTERS=4096
options         BUFPAGES=4096   # 16MB for disk buffering
options         NBUF=4096

> 
>   -jm
> 
> 


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