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From: blk@mitre.org (Brian L. Kahn)
Subject: Diskless HP400 is slooooooow
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Date: 30 May 91 13:31:25


We have a pair of HP/Apollo 9000/400's with 8MB memory and color
screens running under OS version 7.0.  One of the machines is
diskless, and unbelievably slow.  I'm talking 90 seconds for hp-vue to
come up after login.  I expect that the configuration is nutty, but we
haven't found anything wrong yet.  We are using the configuration as
delivered from HP for both hardware and software.  

The sales-critter insisted that 8MB is plenty for a diskless node, I
questioned that first.  Unfortunately, I can't figure any way to ask
an HP how much swapping or paging it is doing.  Is there a way to find
out, or better yet a graphical Xdisplay of same?  We are all used to
SunOS, and flounder about in the mixed SysV*Berkeley*POSIX environment
that Sys7 seems to be.

Is there a common config problem that can cause this trouble?  
Is there a good test or two to find out?

--
B<   Brian Kahn   blk@security.mitre.org   "may the farce be with you"

