SCO UNIX Development
John C. Tompkins
jct at jct.UUCP
Wed Nov 15 12:10:11 AEST 1989
In article <1603 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, davidsen at crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
> In article <602 at tah386.manhattan.ks.us>, terry at tah386.manhattan.ks.us (Terry Hull) writes:
>
> | Just me. The performance is DOWN with UNIX. When something like
> | rnews or expire is running in the background, everything else pretty
> | much comes to a halt.
>
> If this is a common problem Xenix may be with us. I was planning to
> upgrade in January, but any less performance would be unacceptable. Do
> other people find that news bogs the machine?
Well I used to have a 10Mhz 286 Xenix with 1MB RAM that news would take
FOREVVVVVVVVVER (a 50k file might typically take 15-20 minutes!) to run.
Now I have a 386 with 4MB and still using Xenix 286. News runs in almost
no time (same typical file takes less than 1 minute.)
I think it was the limited amount of free memory that was the problem. The
386 helps but not that much, particulary since its running as a 286.
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