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Date: Sun 25-Sep-1989 00:17:22 From: Unknown Subject: Slow when on a network? I notice that even under 1.0, BreakApp is really slow and jerky. My NeXT is on a network with lots of Suns, Vaxen, and Lisp Machines. A few dozen filesystems are nfs mounted on the NeXT. I though the "Mainframe on two chips" was supposed to take care of handling the network, freeing the CPU... Any ideas why the machine is so boringly plodding? I'm not running any other apps, except preferences and the Browser. --Franklin franklin a davis Thinking Machines Corp. Cambridge, MA 02142 617-876-1111 <fad@think.com> {ames, harvard, mit-eddie, uunet}!think!fad Let the four winds blow you safely home! >From: avie@wb1.cs.cmu.edu (Avadis Tevanian)
Date: Sun 25-Sep-1989 00:45:30 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Slow when on a network? In article <30018@news.Think.COM> fad@think.com (Franklin A Davis) writes: >I notice that even under 1.0, BreakApp is really slow and jerky. My >NeXT is on a network with lots of Suns, Vaxen, and Lisp Machines. A >few dozen filesystems are nfs mounted on the NeXT. You must have some system daemon going wild, perhaps because of something on your network. I currently have 36 NFS file systems mounted on my machine and BreakApp has no problem at all. If you know how, you might try running a "ps" in a Terminal to see if there are any processes eating up cpu cycles. Also, is it possible that someone is logged in to your machine over the network?
Date: Sun 27-Sep-1989 16:39:22 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Slow when on a network? In article <6255@pt.cs.cmu.edu> avie@wb1.cs.cmu.edu (Avadis Tevanian) writes: >In article <30018@news.Think.COM> fad@think.com (Franklin A Davis) writes: >>I notice that even under 1.0, BreakApp is really slow and jerky. My >>NeXT is on a network with lots of Suns, Vaxen, and Lisp Machines. A >>few dozen filesystems are nfs mounted on the NeXT. > >You must have some system daemon going wild, perhaps because of something >on your network. I currently have 36 NFS file systems mounted on my machine >and BreakApp has no problem at all. If you know how, you might try running >a "ps" in a Terminal to see if there are any processes eating up cpu >cycles. I think you're right, because I tried it again, and now there's no problem. ps says the tasks (kernel-task) and /NextApps/Shell -MachLaunch 18 124 are the only very busy ones. I'm surprised that they each use about 1/3 of elapsed wall-clock time in cpu time, but I suppose there's a lot of system stuff involved in drawing etc. Thanks for your suggestion. >Also, is it possible that someone is logged in to your machine over the >network? No, no one knows about it yet :-) --Franklin franklin a davis Thinking Machines Corp. Cambridge, MA 02142 617-876-1111 <fad@think.com> {ames, harvard, mit-eddie, uunet}!think!fad Let the four winds blow you safely home! >From: fad@kulla (Franklin A Davis)
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