Size of kernels

The Beach Bum haugj at pigs.UUCP
Wed Sep 14 00:36:34 AEST 1988


In article <1843 at spdcc.COM> dyer at spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
>A number of data structures, in particular disk buffers, are sized dynamically
>at boot time depending on the amount of physical memory installed.
>
>This is a Feature.

this Feature can be disabled by specifying the exact number of block
buffers you want at sysgen time.  if NBUF (or whatever) is set to 0,
the system will allocate 10% of the physical memory for buffers.  if
it is set to any other number, you get that many buffers.
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