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From: tim@comcon.UUCP (Tim Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Interactive 2.2 problems
Summary: Second!
Keywords: slow mail-problems
Message-ID: <423@comcon.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jul 90 10:11:41 GMT
References: <382@denwa.uucp>
Organization: Computer Connection, Anchorage Alaska
Lines: 41

In article <382@denwa.uucp>, jimmy@denwa.info.com (Jim Gottlieb) writes:
> 
> 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.
 [ HPDD stuff ]

> * 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.

My problem is similiar but it is sendmail that won't die.

> 
> *  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.
> 
Your not crazy!  I see it too.  The only thing that seems "better" is
that TCP seems to work now.

It *really* pi---- me off when I called to ask about these things and
learned of the "support" policy.  I am seriously looking at ESIX like
never before!


Tim Brown
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