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From: jon@hitachi.uucp (Jon Ryshpan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 386 machines are workstations? (Sun/386i)
Message-ID: <454@hitachi.uucp>
Date: 13 Jun 90 02:25:00 GMT
References: <136288@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <6537@vax1.acs.udel.EDU> <11876@cbmvax.commodore.com> <2264@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: jon@hitachi.UUCP (Jon Ryshpan)
Organization: Hitachi America - Semiconductor & IC Div.
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In article <2264@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <11876@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup) writes:
>
>| 	God, 60% of a 17 VUPS machine?  I knew Unix window systems were mostly
>| horrible hogs, but that's ridiculous.

Here's a fragment of "ps -ef" on a compaq Deskpro-386/33 running
Interactive Unix X-windows (X version 11.3) on a 640x480 VGA screen.  In 9
hours of moderately busy operation the X server - Xvga - has used 6-1/2
minutes of CPU, about 1%.  Performance is essentially instantaneous;
infinite CPU power wouldn't produce visible improvement.  Performance on a
20 mhz machine with an 800x600 screen is very OK, but isn't as fast as it
could possibly be.

$ ps -ef
     ...
     jon 10318 10317 24 09:56:01 vt03     6:36 Xvga :0
     ...
$ date
     Tue Jun 12 19:14:13 PDT 1990

Jonathan Ryshpan		<...!uunet!hitachi!jon>