[SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC

[Stefan Skoglund]

scohen - Stephen Cohen wrote:
> 
> Both machines (IPX and dx2 - by the way, Cyrix, not Intel) are running Red
> Hat 6.2.  The SPARC IPX on 2.2.16-3, the dx2 on 2.2.14.
> 
> The IPX is DOG SLOW running a windows manager.  It is much faster to run
> Netscape, for example, by sending the output over to my NT workstation.
> Given network bandwidth, one would think that the network would be the
> bottleneck - but this is not the case.

The old song.

For some reason it is much faster if you run the app on some another
computer
and restricts the local machine to running the X server.

It is even such that if you have 2 IPC with one user each it is much
faster if machine As user runs his/her processes on the other machine
and vice versa.