hanyak@garnet.bucknell.EDU ("M.E. Hanyak") (05/03/89)
Does anyone have any insight to the following problem?
Two years ago, Apollo indicated that SR 10.0 would
require a workstation with at least 4 MB of memory
to maintain system performance. We replace almost
all of our DN320's with DN3000's and 4000's that
have 4 MB.
Today, Apollo reps are saying that minimum memory
is 8 MB, to maintain system performance.
Is this a sales ploy? If not, what inherently is
causing the problem? Is this something that all
UNIX-type workstations are experiencing?
Thanks in advanced.
Michael E. Hanyak, Jr. HANYAK@APOLLO.BUCKNELL.EDU
Chem. Engr. Dept.
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA 17837jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (James E. Conley) (05/03/89)
The problem is that small compact programs under SR9.7 now take massive amounts of space under SR10. The rlogin that I am running, for instance, is eating up a whopping 1.8 Mbytes of space, a csh takes 1/2 a megabyte, and the X server eats a healthy 3.3 Mbytes! As you can probably guess, this hurts performance when you have only 4 megabytes in your machine-- something has to go and that means a lot of paging to disk. Apollo knows that this is unaccaptable and have been saying that they are going to get the execution sizes down to a reasonable level some time around 10.2 or so. As far as needing 8Mbytes, I would say it depends on how you are using your machines-- most of our users can survive with 4Mbytes at SR10.1, but for people using them for things other than X terminals the 8Mbytes is pretty essential. This is especially true for our CAD users. Hope this answers some of your questions. James Conley Indiana University Computer Science jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu