Subject: Re: More performance comments From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1993 20:38:32 GMT
In article <1993Jul2.022232.7508@leland.Stanford.EDU> yseeley@leland.Stanford.EDU (Yonik Christopher Seeley) writes:
>In article <v8zMsAiGBh107h@dudes.surfcty.com> chris@dudes.surfcty.com (Chris Johnston) writes:
>>I noticed some comments and/or complaints about Linux.
>>
>>Well...
>>
>>We have two i486DX33 machines here. Both with 256KB cache
>>and 8MB RAM. One is running Linux and the other Univel.
>>
>>Linux will boot and come ready (with all tcp services) in about a minute.
>>Add another 45 seconds to bring X up.
>>
>>It takes the Univel machine close to four (4) minutes to come ready in
>>single user mode and six minutes with tcp support.
>>
>>User login in linux is alomost instant. User login in Univel is
>>just short of 40 seconds.
>
>That is absolutely horrible! Are you sure that Univel is not waiting
>for some remote service like kerberos? I don't know anything about
>Univel, but I fail to see how any OS can be so slow.
The Univel system could be starting up all kinds of things:
TCP/IP
NIS
NFS
NETWARE (SPX/IPX)
user and system accounting
etc.
It's difficult to compare without knowing what is running on both
systems.
--Rick Kelly rmk%rmkhome@merk.com merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP