Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!usc!srhqla!denwa!jimmy From: jimmy@denwa.info.com (Jim Gottlieb) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Interactive 2.2 problems Keywords: slow mail-problems Message-ID: <382@denwa.uucp> Date: 2 Jul 90 06:01:43 GMT Sender: jimmy@denwa.uucp Reply-To: jimmy@denwa.info.com (Jim Gottlieb) Organization: Info Connections, West Los Angeles Lines: 51 I have been working with 2.2 for a few days now, and I'm starting to wonder if we should have bothered upgrading. Some of the problems listed below have been mentioned by others. I repeat them for completeness. * Once I configure the HPDD to know about our Adaptec 1542 and Archive 2150s tape drive, the machine will refuse to boot. It says "Booting The Unix System..." but it lies. * I told mailmgmt that we have both TCP/IP and UUCP connections and that I want to use smail, but only if an address ends in .UUCP does it send it to smail. Otherwise, it fails with a name look-up error. Did someone at Interactive think that all UUCP addresses end in .UUCP? I'm not a sendmail guru so I don't know how to fix this. * When local mail is sent, 'rmail -i username' is invoked. The mail is properly delivered but the process never dies, so ps shows tons of 'rmail's lying around. * Slowness. The system seems to be noticably slower than 2.0.2 and this bothers me. Commands that used to pop something onto the screen immediately now pause for a second or two before doing anything. Also noticably slower is video output. We have a hercules adapter and whereas before when I was using 'more' or 'pg' the next page would almost just appear in a very fast smooth scroll, the screen now jerks as it scrolls a line at a time. I was hoping this was just my imagination, but I now have our 2.2 machine right next to a 2.0.2 machine, and I now know I'm not going crazy. As far as mail is concerned, I can't figure out why vendors never seem to be able to get it right. It's the one facility that almost every Unix system user uses and yet it is screwed up more often than not. It must be given a real low priority. And slowness really bugs me. We run many voice processing applications under 2.0.2 and I'm kind of afraid to "upgrade" them now. Maybe someone has a reasonable explanation. I was really looking forward to the new release, but my joy has been severely dampened. The facts: AT&T 6386E (Olivetti M380/XP-5) with 16 megs of 80ns RAM and an AT&T mono display adapter. 135 meg (28ms) ESDI hard disk. -- Jim Gottlieb E-Mail: or or V-Mail: (213) 551-7702 Fax: 478-3060 The-Real-Me: 824-5454