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From: phri!roy@uunet.uu.net (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: 4.0 non problems
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 6 Mar 89 00:32:06 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 182, message 7 of 17

A common theme seems to be "well, if you take sun's suggestions and
fine-tune the kernel, don't run any daemons you don't have to (especially
rwhod), take the second hand off your clock, make your perfmeters use 5
second update intervals, etc, you can get 4.0.1 to run almost as well as
3.4 on a 4-Meg 3/50".  What I wonder, however, is if all these comparisons
are to a vanilla 3.4 system, or to a similarly fine-tuned 3.4 system.

Another question: does SunOS-3.6 exist?  I've seen various references to
it (especially wrt Van Jacobson's new TCP code), but as far as I know,
3.5.2 is the latest and greatest from sun (not counting 4.X, which may be
the latest, but clearly isn't the greatest).

Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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