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- From: wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (Bill Mayhew)
- Subject: Re: SLOW IPC!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.193853.15453@uhura.neoucom.edu>
- Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
- References: <1992Aug22.160243.16375@unixland.natick.ma.us> <8361@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> <wargopl.715029797@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:38:53 GMT
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- I'll third that! I just picked up four 4 meg x 9 SIMMs for my IPC
- at the Dayton Computerfest this weekend. When I used to have
- "only" 8 megs, the poor little IPC would have to swap all the time,
- now with 24 megs, Openwin is much snappier running since things
- don't swap as much. Vmstat -s also reveals that at least a
- resonable number of reclaims from the freelist happen.
-
- With 8 megs, the kernel usually held about 200 K of available
- memory, now it is typically sitting around 2-1/2 megs available.
- Looks like an additional 14 megs or so are getting a work-out.
-
- There was a bit of a SIMM war going on. 1x9s were as low as $24.95.
- The 4x9s I got were 70 nS for $95. The real blow-out was on 386 DX
- 40 motherboards with 64K cache: $169 at quite a few vendors.
-
- The Dayton Comptuerfest isn't as big as the Hamvention by any means.
- The whole event filled about 2/3 of the Harrah Area. The
- Hamvention fills the entire arena plus the flea market fills 10+
- acres of parking lot. It took the Hamvention nearly 15 years to
- get to the point of filling the arena, so the Computerfest is
- growing much faster. Downside: the Comptuerfest should virtually
- be labeled PC-Clonefest.
-
-
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- Bill Mayhew NEOUCOM Computer Services Department
- Rootstown, OH 44272-9995 USA phone: 216-325-2511
- wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (140.220.1.1)
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