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Subject: Re: Increasing DK_NDRIVE value??
To: bob@luke.pmr.com (Bob Willcox)
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 14:45:40 -0800 (PST)
From: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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In-Reply-To: <199602222211.QAA00952@luke.pmr.com> from "Bob Willcox" at Feb 22, 96 04:11:24 pm
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 you might also look at the iostat and changes that Mattias
 is working on..
 <Mattias.Gronlund@sa.erisoft.se>

 look at

 ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/incomoing/iostat.960221.tar.gz

 I'll bounce his email concerning htis to you:

 julian

> 
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I would like to increase the value of DK_NDRIVE to 16 (or so) so
> that I can gather some disk activity stats on all of the drives on
> my system.  I see that it is currently set to 8 and I need it to
> be at least 14.  Does anybody know of any unpleasent consequences
> that I might see because of this (aside from making some arrays in
> the kernel bigger)?
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Bob Willcox
> bob@luke.pmr.com
> Austin, TX
>