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From: stanb@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Stan Bischof)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Diskless HP400 is slooooooow
Message-ID: <430051@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>
Date: 30 May 91 21:54:22 GMT
References: <BLK.91May30133125@vanity.mitre.org>
Organization: HP Network Measurements Div, Santa Rosa, CA
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In comp.sys.hp, blk@mitre.org (Brian L. Kahn) writes:


>We have a pair of HP/Apollo 9000/400's with 8MB memory and color
>screens running under OS version 7.0.  One of the machines is
>diskless, and unbelievably slow.  I'm talking 90 seconds for hp-vue to
>come up after login.  I expect that the configuration is nutty, but we

>The sales-critter insisted that 8MB is plenty for a diskless node, I

for the totally 'non-official' HP response:

        I'm surprised it's that fast with running VUE on 8 meg machine.
        VUE is a great application (I use it always) but no way is
        it acceptable with 8 meg. It's marginal with 16. You're doing
        a LOT of swapping, that's much of what is taking so long.

        8 meg may be 'plenty' to run raw unix with no applications, but
        it is nowhere near enough for X, let alone to run VUE.

        Buy at least another 16 meg of RAM and you'll be happy. Easy to
        demonstrate- borrow some RAM and try it out!

Of course, this is a totally unofficial personal opinion and in no way
reflects the beliefs of HP or any of our sales-critters.

Stan Bischof
HP-NMD