Slow RA 90 disks on DECsystem 5XXX
George Robbins
grr at cbmvax.commodore.com
Tue Dec 18 08:24:57 AEST 1990
In article <1990Dec17.163638.8785 at ircam.fr> fingerhu at ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut) writes:
> In article <28662 at mimsy.umd.edu> chris at mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
> > DEC have never produced a fast RA disk, with any setup.
>
> We have a 5820, whoops 5810, with 4 ra90. Whenever there is any higher-than-casual
> disk activity, the load average, from system activity, shoots up. Like, when compi-
> ling...
But the MIPS compilers are real CPU/memory hogs - hard to separate
this from the disk usage factors. I find that doing backups from
HSC/RA90's doesn't seem to have much effect on the interactive
response time.
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