[SunRescue] Re: OT: dual PPro mb's...

[Joshua D. Boyd]

I've noticed that Pine on a Sparc 5/170 with 64megs is sluggish with
around a hundred messages, and really awefull with 200.  My solution is to
try and keep less than 100 messages at all times.  A 40 meg file in these
machines would scare me.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 09:30:17PM -0800, Robert Novak wrote:
> > My 200/256 chip matched an Ultra 10 300mhz (same Linux kernel release
> > number--obviously the appropriate architecture version on each--and same
> > gcc version) with identical memory. I've heard several people report that
> > a 200/256 will match a P2-400 on some cpu-intensive tasks.
> 
> I found a 200/256 to be about the same as an Ultra 1/170E, in
> benchmarking.  However, the Ultra handled I/O *much* better -
> the 200/256 was running FreeBSD, the Ultra Solaris 2.6.
> 
> One of our employees (billing department) loaded up a 40meg
> mail folder in pine.  The PC box went *whump* and *stopped* for a good
> five-ten seconds while the I/O took place (this was all good scsi).
> 
> Same thing on the ultra - nobody noticed.  at all.
> 
> course, pine sucks for large folders (mutt handles it much better)...
> 
> Bill
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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