Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!mcs.kent.edu!news From: bailey@math-cs.kent.edu (Jeff Bailey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: HP9000 performance Message-ID: <1991Feb1.030538.6521@mcs.kent.edu> Date: 1 Feb 91 03:05:38 GMT References: <13092@sunquest.UUCP> Sender: news@mcs.kent.edu (News Administrator) Reply-To: bailey@mcs.kent.edu Distribution: usa Organization: Computer Science Dept., Kent State Univ. Lines: 58 In article , bb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew) writes: > > > TCP/IP > > & This has a problem with non-blocking output to sockets; this gives at > & least one large program (empire, a game) fits. Rumored to be fixed in 8.0 > > > C > > & Screwy, arcane compiler flags to adjust STATIC tables in the various > & compiler passes. Many programs (perl, X distribution, etc.) will not > & compile without fiddling with these switches. Again, fixed in 8.0 > > X11R4 from MIT > > & "Cannot perform realloc". We don't know where this is coming from, we > & are still working on it. This basically disables all X toolkit > & programs; and is especially painful because (a) HP didn't give us dbx, > & and (b) gdb can't find any symbols, even though we compile it -g. We've been running X11R4 from MIT since the *DAY* it was released on expo. I've *never* seen this problem. You did set the MALLOC_RETURNS_0 variable like the docs say didn't you? > > > Conclusion: > > &$ Get Suns!!! Bull Sh*t!! The four Sun IPCs we have won't even keep running long enough for them to be useful. We have 4.1.1 on order but 4.1 will *crash* several times in one evening and has an annoying habit of killing processes at random. *Any* process is susceptible to this (X, ls, csh,...). They are totally useless as is. I was thrown clear off the system because of this at least 15 times last night and had to reboot the machine at least 4 or 5 times, not to mention the 2 times it simply panic'ed and died. > > > -- > "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo." > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Brian Bartholomew UUCP: ...gatech!uflorida!mathlab.math.ufl.edu!bb > University of Florida Internet: bb@math.ufl.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Bailey (JRB71) (System Administrator) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science | The first academic Kent State University | institution with a Kent - OH 44242 | "WaveTracer DTC"