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Subject: Response with diskless Sparc
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 16 Nov 90 12:05:00 GMT
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I have recently hooked up an SLC and two Sparcstation 1+ to my
Sparcstation 1 (the Sparcstation 1+ machines were upgrades from 3/80's),
and have noticed that they come up from power on VERY slowly (like 20
minutes).  I was wondering if this is normal?  When the machines were
3/80s they came up a lot quicker (within 5 minutes).  Also, after the new
machines come up the take a VERY long time to get from the login/password
prompt to the shell prompt.  Sometimes even the shell responds slowly,
slower then the 3/80.  We are running X on all the machines, the SLC has
12 meg of RAM, the  1+'s have 8 meg, and the server (Sparc 1) has 12 meg.
And by slowly I mean 2-3 minutes for an ls to respond in a directory that
has about 30 files in it, and for the the first shell prompt to come up it
takes about 4 minutes.  Is there something that I am missing? 

      Gregg Jensen