RS/6000 Multiuser Performance
Christopher Gunn
1k1mgm at kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Sat Mar 30 03:20:01 AEST 1991
In article <27718 at uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, brs at cis.ufl.edu (Ray Seyfarth) writes:
> I am curious about experiences of users of RS/6000 model 320 systems
> with multiple users. In particular I would like some feedback from
> users with about 30 X terminals attached to a 320. What kind of
> performance is achieved and how much memory is needed?
>
> Ray Seyfarth
I'm interested in this, too. _Personal Workstation_ [nee _MIPS_] a
few months ago [January issue? I thought I had it at my desk, but I
can't find it now....] had a long detailed series of articles on
the 320, one of which said they really sucked air doing serious
multi-user work. I copied the articles and gave them to my IBM
salesman, who's looking into possible answers/rebuttals. It was
unclear from the article whether the problem was inherent architecture,
cache size (which would be somewhat remedied by larger cache on xy0,
y >= 3), or AIX (which could at some point be fixed).
It's necessary to note that _Personal Workstation_ could better be
named _PC Hotrods_, and they may have some editorial bias in favor
of not giving their Everex 486-using readers bad cases of RS/6000-envy.
But the numbers they published were disturbing.
This may all have been discussed before I discovered that this
newsgroup was where the RS/6000 stuff got posted. If so, I apologize
for bringing it up again....
Christopher Gunn Molecular Graphics and Modeling Lab
SPAN--KUPHSX::GUNN Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Malott Hall
913-864-4428 or -4495 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045
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