[849] in testers
Slow RT's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue May 22 23:43:30 1990
From: cfields@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 22 May 90 23:42:32 -0400
To: testers@MIT.EDU
I noticed when I took the 7.0 update that my RT seemed considerably slower.
I finally got around to clocking some things. The times verified that they
were happening much slower. The fact is that most everything is much slower.
Compiles hurt quite a lot.
My .xsession file:
> /usr/bin/X/xterm -C -n "(login)"
> unlog
My .startup.X:
> setenv DISPLAY unix:0
> xrdb .Xresources
> xset s blank
> if (`machtype -c` == MVAX-II) xset m 25 3
> if (`machtype` == rt) xset b 50 1000 50
> if (`machtype` == rt) xmodmap .map
> /mit/x11r4/`machtype`bin/twm &
> xset +fp /mit/x11r4/`machtype`lib/X11/fonts/misc
> xbiff -file /tmp/xbiff.cfields -update 10 -geometry +3-3 &
> /usr/etc/zwgc
> znol | zwrite cfields &
Clocked: 6.4R 7.0D
time from hitting return for 32s 41s
password to csh prompt
time from hitting return on 38s 67s
source .startup.X to
subsequent csh prompt
The 7.0D machine was my machine entropy, 8M ram, 16M swap, 40M hard disk.
The 6.4R machine actually had the 7.0 packs underneath it, but has not yet
been updated. It has the same hardware configuration.
This really sucks.
Craig
