[1803] in Release_7.7_team
Re: update times
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed Jun 2 09:30:28 1999
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To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jun 1999 20:58:18 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 09:30:16 EDT
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> My indy is also a 64M machine. It does have one of the slowest indy
> processors around (100MHz) but I'm not sure how uncommon those are,
> nor how much difference processor speed makes.
I've also seen long update times on an old R4600 Indy. I tend to suspect
that the older machines have slower disks, etc., as well as processors,
though I haven't done testing to quantify this. The update time on the
R5000 Indy is better, though, closer to the O2 time.
Bob
