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- Subject: Re: SLOW IPC!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.092237.801@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
- From: phys229@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz (Mr. A.D. McGregor)
- Date: 14 Sep 92 09:22:36 +1200
- Sender: phys229@cantua (Mr. A.D. McGregor)
- References: <1992Aug22.160243.16375@unixland.natick.ma.us> <DAVID.92Sep10153034@delphi.dseg.ti.com>
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- In article <DAVID.92Sep10153034@delphi.dseg.ti.com>, david@dseg.ti.com (david bourgoyne) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug22.160243.16375@unixland.natick.ma.us> bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser) writes:
- >
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- > >> We just set up an IPC in an office that used to have a 3/60. The 3/60
- > >> had 16mb of memory and was used for OW 2.0 and Sunview. The IPC actually
- > >> feels much slower than the 3/60!!!! The IPC only has 8mb of memory and
- > >> is a color display instead of mono like the 3/60. The IPC is used for
- > >> sunview and OW 3.0, and runs sunos 4.1.2 instead of 4.1.1_U1.
- > >>
- > >> Is the problem with the IPC just lack of memory? If we beef it upt o
- > >> 16 or 32mb, will it pick up the pace a bit? Perfmeter doesn't show an
- > >> excessive amount of swapping, although it does show some swapping activity
- > >> most of the time. (so it seems like it must be at least partly due to
- > >> lack of memory).
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- > If you increase your memory to 24mb, you will see a world of
- > improvement. In addition, if you run X11R5 from mit instead of that
- > bloated openwin3.0 you will get even more speed. My IPC with a color
- > frame buffer running X11R5 gets 260 rpms out of xengine while my IPX
- > with a GX running openwin3.0 gets 268. Hey, I know xengine is not a
- > respectable benchmark, but it's something. I am presently benchmarking
- > several varieties of Sun workstations with the x11perf benchmark in the
- > X11R5 release. I will post the results to the net.
-
- I see lots of people complaining about OW 3.0 being slow;
- I wonder how many people have tried turning off sunview support?
- When you do this, OW 3.0 is within a couple of percent of the speed
- of X11R5, and I think the drop is worth it just to run pageview.
- (well, and SimCity too...)
-
- Andrew McGregor
-