WARNING:

NOTE:

NET.CFG Options Reference

NetWare DOS Requester Option

When specifying the value for this parameter, don’t exceed the maximum packet size of the network board. Doing so might cause system failure.

CACHE BUFFERS=number

Sets the number of cache buffers the NetWare DOS Requester software uses for local caching of nonshared, nontransactionally tracked files.

Each buffer allocated allows one file to be cached.

You can increase the number of cache buffers to speed up the process of sequential reads/writes.

Increasing the value of this parameter decreases available memory.

Syntax

cache buffers=number

 

Replace number with the value from the DOS

 

CONFIG.SYS command “FILES = number”

 

minus 5, or with any number through 64.

 

 

Default

5

 

 

Range

0 to 64

 

 

Modules

FIO.VLM

 

 

Example

To speed up the process of sequential reads/writes to

 

match a FILES=30 setting in the CONFIG.SYS file, you

 

would place the following lines in your NET.CFG file:

 

netware dos requester

 

cache buffers=25

 

 

CACHE WRITES=[on off]

Sets the cache write requests to “on” or “off.” The default setting “on” increases performance of the NetWare Client software by waiting for a request from the server before writing data to disk.

Setting the value for this parameter to “off” increases data integrity but decreases performance.

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