23 Oct
2007
23 Oct
'07
7:19 p.m.
On 10/24/07, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
Oh, yeah. The CPU is nominally as fast as a MicroVAX II (and over 50%
faster than an 11/750), but if you were swapping, that'd be a *huge*
difference in compile times. I was doing this on an 8MB 11/750 with
nothing else going on (or on a 5MB 11/730 in a similar state), which
is, BTW, fully loaded, thus the difference.
I haven't had the pleasure to use a fully-loaded VS2000 - mine are
around 6MB - enough to boot and run, but not a lot of empty RAM
sitting around.
I think a VS2000 disk vastly underperforms compared to an RA81 on a
UDA50, so the swapping makes it much, much worse.
-ethan
> My compile
on the VAXstation 2000 was at least a few days. Maybe a week.
...it was swapping like crazy during the compile, and
swapping to the same disk where the sources were stored. That machine
is S*L*O*W. It would have probably gone a whole lot faster if it had
enough RAM.