From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 12 14:12:25 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA06483 for current-outgoing; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 14:12:25 -0800 Received: from lisa.rur.com (G338.257.InterLink.NET [199.202.234.53]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA06469 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 14:12:15 -0800 Received: (from leo@localhost) by lisa.rur.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA19703; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 17:12:12 -0500 Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 17:12:12 -0500 (EST) From: Leo Papandreou To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISP state their FreeBSD concerns In-Reply-To: <16518.816202770@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 12 Nov 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > On my system at home (486DX4/100, 850MB Western Digital IDE, VLB IDE > > controller, 24MB RAM) the system does seem to freeze up for as much as 5 > > seconds when I start up a large process such as Netscape or cause one of > > the existing processes to greatly expand their RAM usage (for example, > > looking through the 1000 messages that sometimes accumulate in my INBOX > > using pine, or loading a large number of pictures into XV). I think it's > > Huh. Well, all I can say is that this definitely points at IDE > because I can't reproduce it at all, and that includes starting the > most bloated netscape v2.0b1 binaries, systems like KCL and other > notorious memory hogs. Not so fast. I have additional anecdotal evidence. ASUS P54TP4, NCR-810, 32M, 2G Hawk, 2.0.5-RELEASE. After a week of exclusively analog, coffee free activity, I logged in and started pine. Woo-hoo! 3000+ accumulated messages. Good night! I'm talking frequent, _lengthy_ "binds" lasting as long as a minute. Virtual terminal sessions indicated that performance had been sig- nificantly degraded system wide. When i was running X I noticed that programs like Netscape would often choke the system as well. I put it down to X running on a "measly" 32M (sigh.) /Leo