Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Bad 1.3.95 interactive performance (fwd) | Date | Tue, 30 Apr 1996 17:27:27 +0300 | From | Terje Bergstrom <> |
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> I am not claiming that ncrB2L has no bugs, and that your problem is not > due to the driver. > However, I use X, gcc, etc.. on 2 machines that I switch off only once a > week and I never saw your problem. > It seems (no reply) that nobody else has had the same problem as yours. > > Can you send to me (us) the description of your hardware configuration.
I seem to have exactly the same problem as Matthias. I didn't realize it before I read Matthias' post and decided to try going back to Drew's driver. Here's what I noticed:
On lightly loaded machine ncrB2L and Drew's drivers perform exactly the same. When I started using X and use constantly around 10MB swap (16MB memory), my system's performance went down greatly. I thought it was just because of having too little memory and too many memory-hungry programs.
So I tried switching back to Drew's driver and lo, my system became a lot more usable. Swapping stuff in and out is a lot faster and the disk seems to make a lot less noice, i.e. it's not in use that much. I'd be happy to do some further testing if told what to test. This is just what I noticed.
My hardware:
Amd486DX4/100, 128kB L2 cache, MG motherboard, 16MB memory Noname-NCR810 board with Conner CFA540S attached to it (10MHz sync transfer)
Linux versions 1.3.92-97.
If there's something vital missing, just ask.
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