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From: jct@jct.UUCP (John C. Tompkins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SCO UNIX Development
Summary: rnews bogs down 1MB RAM
Message-ID: <274@jct.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 89 01:10:11 GMT
References: <914@fiver.UUCP> <602@tah386.manhattan.ks.us> <1603@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Organization: Kerr-McGee, Okla. City
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In article <1603@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
> In article <602@tah386.manhattan.ks.us>, terry@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.