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From: jackie@Apple.COM (Hernan'Jackie' Macapanpan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: A/UX performance
Message-ID: <7872@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 8 Apr 88 16:04:43 GMT
References: <1837@ssc-vax.UUCP> <171@tekbspa.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <171@tekbspa.UUCP>, joe@tekbspa.UUCP (Joe Angelo) writes:
> I've yet had time to run real bmarks on our MacII A/UX, but from just
> tinkering and fussing around ... i've can instinctively say that
> MacII A/UX is horribly slow in regards to process switching and disk
> utilitzation in ''init 2''

How much physical memory are you running with ?

> I've only had A/UX up (here) for the past day and already have
> a six page ``feature'' list. This entire A/UX thing has really
> blown my mind. There is a VERY strange mixture of OS's and
> commands and a large number of commands don't generate the output
> one would expect. 

Strange? Are you a BSD or SysV user? What kinda system are you used to running
on anyway? :-)

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