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NET.CFG Options Reference
NetWare DOS Requester Option
WARNING: 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.
NOTE: Increasing the value of this parameter decreases available memory.
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.
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