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Subject: Re: SparcStation Performance
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Date: 21 Nov 89 06:48:09 GMT
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In article <3102@brazos.Rice.edu> MORGENSTERN@TCUAVMS.BITNET writes:
>We've also noticed that the SparcStation becomes quite slow when someone
>is doing nothing more than editing a file on the console (slow to the
>point that vi acts like the load average is up around 10 or so when it is
>actually less than one).  This is not observed when several people are
>logged on via ethernet -- only when the console is being used.

This happens because the system is spending a lot of time in the boot PROM
console terminal emulator with interrupts disabled.

The solution is to start up sunview even if you just want to edit a file
-- it only takes a second if you use sunview -n.

David DiGiacomo, Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, CA  sun!david david@eng.sun.com