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From: mikebe@i88.isc.com (Michael G. Beirne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: '6000 performance issue
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.042905.26880@i88.isc.com>
Date: 19 Nov 90 04:29:05 GMT
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In article <1990Nov5.100227@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> marc@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Marc Pawliger) writes:
>
>A dumped gnumacs will be next to impossible on a '6000.  The unexec()
>included in the distribution assumes a fixed text load address so that
>offsets will be correct when the dumped gnumacs is exec'd.  As I under-
>stand things, the '6000's loader does not always load executables at the
>same address, so gnumacs will die horribly.  So take heart that all the
>files loaded from loadup.el load quickly.
>
>These are my opinions, not IBM's etc etc etc
>
>+---Marc Pawliger---IBM Advanced Workstations Division---Palo Alto, CA---+
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This sounds like a performance problem to me. What happens when 5 or 6 people
start up Frame on a RS/6000 and the whole program is in paging/memory area
for each user instead of just the data and bss area separate for each user?

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