[149] in Athena Bugs
Re: RT 6.0A performance is a downer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Wed Apr 6 13:41:28 1988
From: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: Jerome H. Saltzer <Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, henry@garp.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 06 Apr 88 10:15:57 -0500.
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 88 13:38:55 EDT
Jerry:
Can you please send these reports to "rt-testers" so that all the RT
victims will know how they will lose next? :) Thanks..
>It is possible that the problem lies in the use of NFS rather than
>RVD for system binaries, but it is also possible that something else
>is wrong. Is there a spare RVD pack around onto which we can copy
>the system in order to find out quickly whether or not the problem is
>deeper? We need to get an answer to this question as soon as
>feasible.
Agamemnon, which is serving the /?rvd via NFS to the test community,
is currently somewhat "sick." ICMP Echoes and "nfspings" show a
consistently erratic response. I reported this to hotline last night,
and I believe they're investigating the problem further.
This is not to say that the performance of 6.0a RT isn't bad; it is.
I've griped about it since I took that release, and have received only
minor relief in a new kernel I was given by Bob McKie and George
Linscott.
-- Henry
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