On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 09:51:09PM -0400, Susan Duncan wrote:
> Memory intensive applications limit what else I can do on it (ex.
> running HitListPro on a 79MB log file makes it crawl) I have
> occasionally had a 'application not responding' on it, but that's it.
Doesn't this strike you as odd?
I would find either of these symptomatic of massive problems in either
the OS install or OS design. (And I'd rule out the former, because
you certainly seem to know what you're doing...which leaves the latter.)
I don't understand why you would accept this situation as normal.
I'm writing this on a machine that's 8 years old -- which is several
generations back. Yet, this aging Sparc 2 workstation is
- Running a proxy caching web server
- Running a web browser
- Running a ftp session
- Handling mailing list traffic via sendmail/majordomo
- Running a Perl-based mail monitoring tool
- Running a news client that's auto-fetching Usenet news
- Running a fax server
- Running a mail client
- Running a number of interactive shell and editor sessions.
And it's doing so with pretty zippy interactive response, primarily
because it's running an operating system designed to be inherently
multi-user and multi-tasking, and equipped with a finely-tuned
virtual memory subsystem. To me, this is "normal" behavior.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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