Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdcad!brahms!ching From: ching@brahms.amd.com (Mike Ching) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: My SE+7.0 seems like "molasses in January"? Message-ID: <1991Jun8.212524.18587@amd.com> Date: 8 Jun 91 21:25:24 GMT References: <89wh4fh@rpi.edu> <1991Jun7.181526.6565@neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices; Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 28 In article <1991Jun7.181526.6565@neon.Stanford.EDU> philip@pescadero.stanford.edu writes: >In article <89wh4fh@rpi.edu>, gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) writes: >|> In article >|> km2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kenneth E. Mohnkern) writes: >[extreme slowness of booting SE with 4M running 7.0] >|> I have an SE too. It doesn't seem at all slower (or at least, it doesn't seem >|> noticably slower under 7 as compared to 6.0.7). Perhaps you have virtual >|> memory turned on? I also have 4Meg in my SE, maybe that's helping me out. >No, you can't use VM on and SE. I think it would be worthwhile to >find out what's going on here - I know someone with a Classic who >finds 7.0 unacceptably slow. Maybe the people with very slow SEs >or Classics should get together with the people without this >problem and work out the cause. The fact that one person finds >it takes many minutes just to boot is surely a clue. My cx boots >reasonably fast with 7.0 - no noticeable change from 6.0.7. I can't offer more than anecdotes but I believe system 7 slowness can be due to the disk driver. The compatability stack hung on my machine (2048Ke) so I installed without the check being run. No go with SilverLining 5.25, there were problems like icons not being displayed, etc. I reformatted with a Power Drive formatter and it seemed to work but was intolerably slow. I tried again with SF&I and it seems to work with only a slight slowdown compared to 6.0.7. Since I had to reformat and restore the disk, there was more that changed than just the disk driver but I'll be going back to SilverLining as soon as I can get 5.3. Funny that the oldest driver I have seems to work best. Mike Ching