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- Path: sparky!uunet!utoday!infopro!david
- From: david@infopro.com (Dragon [David Fiedler])
- Subject: Re: Performance degradation under SCO UNIX
- Organization: InfoPro Systems: Writers, Consultants, and Dragons
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 05:56:34 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.055634.11950@infopro.com>
- References: <1472@pacsoft.com>
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- mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik) writes:
-
- >This posting is on behalf of a friend of mine who is having a problem
- >with an SCO UNIX upgrade. A customer of his originally had a 486/33
- >with 16M of memory and a 1G SCSI drive. Recently, the system was upgraded
- >to a 486/50 with 32M of memory and an additional 1G drive was added. The
- >upgrade was principally done because the customer wanted to network their
- >existing PCs with the UNIX box (using PC-Interface by Locus) so that
- >their business could be put "under one roof". Unfortunately, the system
- >is now crawling along at a snail's pace.
-
- Is this big fancy fast box still on the outmoded ISA bus? If so, try
- booting with mem=/L added to the end of the boot string and I bet you see
- some results...
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