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On Thu, 8 May 1997, Jason Thorpe wrote:


> ...hm, yes, you could increase the number of buffer pages.  The hp300
> port uses a flat 10% of physical RAM for buffers (because hp300s tend
> to be long on memory and short on disk speed :-)  For 8M of RAM, you
> have, 2048 4K pages (the kernel actually gets a few less than this,
> but this is close enough :-)  This means that you get a bufpages
> value of approx 204.  The option you use to adjust this is:
> 
> options 	BUFPAGES=xxx

	Apologies if I'm missing something here, but wouldn't it be
	be appropriate to update NBUF as well? (presumably to 1/2 of
	BUFPAGES in the case of the hp300).

		David/abs

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