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From: zombie@voodoo.UUCP (Mike York)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Experiences with 4D/2xx as timesharing systems?
Message-ID: <538@voodoo.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 89 23:31:17 GMT
References: <8904111520.AA05578@adt.uucp>
Reply-To: zombie@voodoo.UUCP (Mike York)
Organization: Voodoo Graphics Project
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In article <8904111520.AA05578@adt.uucp> madd@adt.UUCP (jim frost) writes:
>Our biggest complaint about SGI performance is that it degrades
>substantially over time.  I'm fairly certain that this is a VM problem
>since it happens with every large application I've run, including some
>which have pretty clean usage and do *not* have this problem under 4.3
>BSD.  The system returns to its former spunkiness after reboot.  I
>might expect that it's related to 4Sight except that logout/login
>doesn't correct the problem.

We saw this problem with 3.0 on a 4D/70GT, but haven't noticed it since
we've upgraded to 3.1.  As I recall, SGI told us the problem was due to
4Sight and that rebooting *was* the only work around.

Now, if SGI could only speed up picking on the 70GT to be as fast as
picking on the 4D/20...


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Mike York
Boeing Computer Services, Renton, Washington
(206) 234-7724
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