mlandau@diamond.bbn.com.UUCP (04/19/87)
Has anyone modified the Sun X.V10R4 server to use the new shared memory facilities available in SunOS 3.2 and above for connections to the local server? Does/would this lead to serious performance improvements? On a wholly unrelated note, (men)uwm seems not to have some problems when dealing with the right-hand edge of Sun screens - when you're selecting a window to apply some operation to, the window manager ignores selections in the rightmost 2 or 3 inchses if the screen. I don't recall seeing a fix to this posted. Is it a known bug, or am I the only one who's seen it? -- Matt Landau "Waiting for a flash of enlightenment mlandau@diamond.bbn.com in all this blood and thunder..."
guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) (04/20/87)
>Has anyone modified the Sun X.V10R4 server to use the new shared memory >facilities available in SunOS 3.2 and above for connections to the local >server? Before somebody runs off to do this, note: 1) The shared memory facilities are a system generation option, just as they are in vanilla S5R2 distributions; "machine Y is running SunOS 3.2" does not imply "machine Y will support the S5 shared memory calls". 2) In the current implementation, shared memory pages are wired down. (The phrase "current" is significant; see the paper "Virtual Memory Architecture in SunOS" at the upcoming USENIX for information on potential bases for future implementations, as well as for different shared memory facilities.) >Does/would this lead to serious performance improvements? That would depend, in part, on what scheme you use for obtaining exclusive access to data structures in shared memory. It would be an interesting experiment, but I'm not about to place bets on the result. (Note also that Ultrix also supports the S5 shared memory stuff.
gancarz@decvax.UUCP (Mike Gancarz) (04/21/87)
In article <> mlandau@Diamond.BBN.COM (Matt Landau) writes: > >On a wholly unrelated note, (men)uwm seems not to have some problems when >dealing with the right-hand edge of Sun screens - when you're selecting a >window to apply some operation to, the window manager ignores selections >in the rightmost 2 or 3 inchses if the screen. I don't recall seeing a >fix to this posted. Is it a known bug, or am I the only one who's seen it? The version of uwm running on my GPX doesn't exhibit this problem. Since I regularly keep my icons on the rightmost side of the screen, this one would have shown up long ago. Can someone verify whether this is a problem under menuwm? --Mike