Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual page 634

Task
Set number of cache buffers This sets the minimum number of
Look up cache buffers
Set cache buffers for
traditional file system
Set the cache for file and
directory entries
Set name cache to on or off
Use percentages instead of
integers for cache balancing
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Purpose
cache buffers allocated for NSS file
system access. The default and
minimum number of cache buffers is
512. The range is 256 to 1048576.
To quickly look up cache buffers, the
cache uses a hashing algorithm that
maps names to buckets. Sometimes
multiple names map to the same
bucket. When this occurs, all names
must be searched to determine if the
entry is in the cache. The number of
entries in the hash table is proportional
to the amount of free memory available
when you load NSS.
You can set the minimum number of
cache buffers that NSS allocates for
traditional file system access. To
accomplish this, NSS returns pages to
the operating system. This occurs until
the operating system has enough
pages, or until NSS reaches the
minimum number of pages. The
default is 1024. The range is 1024 to
1048576.
This sets the number of Name cache
entries. NSS keeps a cache of the file
and directory names it recently looked
up. This speeds up opening files and
path searches. The default is 2111.
The range is 3 to 65521.
This sets Name Cache to ON or OFF.
The default is ON.
This sets the buffers to percentages
rather than integers for dynamic
balancing of free memory for the buffer
cache. The default is ON. Use this
switch with /MinBufferCacheSize.
Command
nss/
MinBufferCacheSize=
value
nss/NumHashBuckets
nss/
MinOSBufferCacheSize
nss/NameCacheSize
nss/(No)NameCache
nss/(No)CacheBalance