*BSD News Article 85467


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!worldnet.att.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!unlisys!blackbush.xlink.net!omp-paderborn.de!fiction!colwyn!not-for-mail
From: tron@lyssa.owl.de (Matthias Scheler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.1 Disk Cacheing
Date: 22 Dec 1996 10:51:19 +0100
Organization: Privates Internet Ost-Westfalen-Lippe
Lines: 11
Message-ID: <59j0an$njg@colwyn.owl.de>
References: <851083732.4985.0@kevinw.noc.demon.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: lyssa.owl.de
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5020

In article <851083732.4985.0@kevinw.noc.demon.net>,
	kevinw@kevinw.demon.net (Kevin Walton) writes:
> Can anyone give some more info as to how/where the SCSI disk caching
> stuff is in the Src, and what can be 'tweaked', as we have plenty of 
> memory in the machine.

I use "options BUFPAGES=1024" in the kernel configuration files to get
4MB buffers on a NetBSD-i386 1.2 system.

-- 
Matthias Scheler				http://home.pages.de/~tron/