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From: dayhoff@ddnvx1.afwl.af.mil (dayhoff@ddnvx1.afwl.af.mil  --  harv)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: VAX 3100 Slow!
Message-ID: <1991May11.151231.22518@ddnvx1.afwl.af.mil>
Date: 11 May 91 15:12:31 GMT
References: <7453@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> <3058@shodha.enet.dec.com>
Organization: Phillips Laboratory - Kirtland AFB
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In article <3058@shodha.enet.dec.com>, alan@shodha.enet.dec.com 
       ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.) writes:
> In article <7453@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>, jls2@spdcc.COM (Jeff Stoner) writes:
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> 	The problem is that the phrase "intolerably slow" contains
> 	almost no information about the system performance.  It
> 	could be any number of things:
> 
[possibilities deleted]
> 
I must agree, my stock VS3100, 8 Meg, color, local disks,
does quite well w/ 4 DECterms and calendar.  
I was taking a bit of a performance hit due to short swap space 
and slow RZ23's....  Fixed by adding high speed Wren.
I still get impatient at times, but such is life. 
I do program development and admin. If I made my living at 
number crunching or supper spiffy graphics the VS would be too slow. 
> 	If you have Internet access consider picking up a copy of
> 	the program Monitor from gatekeeper.dec.com.
...Seems as though Monitor takes an unfair ammount of disk space.
>> 
>> -- 
>> ====== Jeff L. Stoner === Boulder, Colo. ============ /\ = /\ ========== |
> -- 
> Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxn.dec.com
harv        dayhoff@ddnvx1.afwl.af.mil