monty%delphi@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Monty Mullig) (01/04/89)
we run sunview under 4.0 on 3/50s here and we have the same problems as everyone else with its speed. one noticeable factor in sunview's performance is the size of the text saved in a shell tool. after a few hours of good work with a fair amount of output to the screen, sunview begins to slow down noticeably-- you can almost see the paging. if we empty the window of text (left-e), sunview returns to a more tolerable speed until the window fills with text again. a question for more experienced sunview users than I: how can one limit the amount of text that is saved in a window (a la X, where the default number of lines is quite small) ? as far as i can tell, there really isn't an option in sunview for this--text is saved without bound. there is an option that can be set in .defaults called /Ttty/Text_wraparound_size, but this doesn't seem to have any effect on our cmdtools. the documentation indicates that this option only changes the amount of text saved in the console window. is that true ? thanks in advance, --monty mullig univ of chicago biological sciences division
mcgrew@topaz.rutgers.edu (Charles) (01/14/89)
monty%delphi@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Monty Mullig) writes > we run sunview under 4.0 on 3/50s here and we have the same problems as > everyone else with its speed. ... we (and I think others have said in sun-spots) loaded the old (3.5/3.2) sunview on instead of the 4.0 and found it very reasonable (as fast as before). You may want to give that a try... Charles