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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: aargh! How to handle 128 ttys on a system?
To: peter@haywire.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm)
Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 21:52:02 -0700 (PDT)
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> 
> BTW: Julian:  What came over you when you partitioned that drive? 
> 31 Meg swap space? :-)  ??  Sure makes it hard to get a crash dump of a 
> machine with 32M in it.  (I've since found about options "MAXMEM=31000")
hey it was a small machine
the motherboard only fitted 16MB..
(steal the DOS partition? (I think there may be one))

> 
> 
> Oh, also, I restored a '-p' option to tunefs that I had been missing from 
> my SVR4 machines...  On Julian's drive, I see:
> 
> tunefs: maximum contiguous block count: (-a)               1
> tunefs: rotational delay between contiguous blocks: (-d)   4 ms
> tunefs: maximum blocks per file in a cylinder group: (-e)  1024
> tunefs: minimum percentage of free space: (-m)             10%
> tunefs: optimization preference: (-o)                      time

yeah sorry, I never got around to tuning and let it use defaults....

works a lot better if you lie about the geometry too,
and tell the fs it has one head and 2MB/track or do....