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From: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Filesystem Speeds (was Re:  GVP Trade-in)
Keywords: SCSI, GVP
Message-ID: <1265@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
Date: 1 Oct 90 20:36:40 GMT
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Reply-To: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
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In article <14736@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
>Unixes, this may well mean 8 Meg if you want nice graphical interfaces.

Well, our DECstations need at least 24 Meg when compiling FORTRAN
programs from the X-Windows environment (which is the default).
We started with 16 Meg machines and the optimizer run starts heavy
paging activity. Suprisingly that wasn't the slowest operation but
the linker that leaves the machine with a nearly idle CPU (20% loaded)
when loading the libraries from the server which isn't slow for
other common operations.

Regards,
-- 
Michael van Elst
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