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- From: paul@openage.com (Paul A. Fischer, Sr UNIX Sys Consultant)
- Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
- Subject: Performance degradation under SCO UNIX
- Message-ID: <9212291032.aa28847@openage.COM>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 15:32:08 GMT
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- >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.
-
- >Oh, yes, before I forget, it's a pretty standard box. UNIX 3.2v4.1,
- >has a Bustek SCSI, and I believe a couple of Equinox 24-port boards.
- >They currently have about 30 or so dumb terminals, about 15 PCs and
- >around 8 printers (HPLJs and CI line printers).
-
- First make sure the interanal and external 486 caches are turned on. Then make
- sure the BIOS shadowing is turned on. You might also give more info on what
- ethernet boards are running, and wether this lotus slowdown is a DOS lotus slow
- down, or a UNIX lotus slowdown.
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