Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!cs.ucla.edu!stiber From: stiber@cs.ucla.edu (Michael D Stiber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: My SE+7.0 seems like "molasses in January"? Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 91 22:38:42 GMT References: <1991Jun5.211249.19433@bigsur.uucp> Sender: usenet@cs.ucla.edu (Mr. News Himself) Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: km2a+@andrew.cmu.edu's message of 7 Jun 91 14:14:25 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: maui.cs.ucla.edu In article km2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kenneth E. Mohnkern) writes: (Stuff about slow SEs with 4M, etc., under Sys 7 deleted) Interesting. I have an OLD SE (i.e., it was noisy until I replaced the fan) with 4M, a 30M external HD, and a full-page-display. the only significant differences in speed I've noticed are during folder openings (a little bit slower, but not too bad), and some other file system accesses (after which it seems to update parts of the screen). Neither delay is severe. This is with 128K cache and show folder sizes off. Perhaps you installed the system with some networking stuff, and your mac is trying to access appletalk for a while, before giving up? I was careful to do a custom install, with only the stuff absolutely necessary for me. -- Michael Stiber stiber@cs.ucla.edu ...{ucbvax,ihpn4}!ucla-cs!stiber UCLA Computer Science Dept., 3436 Boelter Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90024