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From: jls2@spdcc.COM (Jeff Stoner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: VAX 3100 Slow!
Message-ID: <7453@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 1 May 91 22:49:38 GMT
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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Hi all. We have several DECstation 3100s (the RISC boxes) and a
VAXStation 3100 (the VAX CPU), all running at 4.0 or 4.1 of Ultrix.

I am received complaints that the VAX 3100 is "intolerably slow".
I understand that the VAX CPU will be inherently slower than the RISC ones,
but is there anything I can do to speed up the VAX? I don't have
Ultrix source code, but anything else would be fair game.

I am running 4.0 Ultrix "out of the box" (no mods) with DECwindows
and a secondary nameserver on the system. There is generally one user on
the main keyboard and screen, running maybe 4 DECterms and a few X-things
(like xload and xclock).

Suggestions? Thanks in advance...

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