Interactive 2.2 problems
Jim Gottlieb
jimmy at denwa.info.com
Tue Jul 3 07:52:57 AEST 1990
After posting my recent impression of Interactive 2.2 being horribly
slow, I decided to do a simple unofficial comparison between 2.2 and
2.0.2.
I know this isn't scientific but it gives an idea. I started 10 yes(1)
programs in the background and immediately ran a 'ps -ef'. The
following is how long each machine took to finish giving the ps(1)
reseults.
6386E with 4 meg of RAM and 2.0.2: 6 seconds
6386E with 16 meg of RAM and 2.2: 31 seconds
Both machines were not heavily loaded at the time. In fact, I was the
only user on either, and if anything the 2.0.2 machine was more loaded
as it was running 24 channels of voice mail when I ran this test and
still came out much quicker. Also note the RAM difference. When I
tried running the voice mail on the 2.2 machine, the hard disk light
stayed on constantly and it tooked 20 seconds just to get a Password:
prompt after entering my login.
At Interactive Hollis's suggestion, I tried boosting NPROC and NBUF
with no noticable difference.
Do I just have a bad copy, or is something wrong with the release?
I'm hoping it's something simple like a tunable parameter is wrong,
but...
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