[SunRescue] RE: Support your local SS/5

Fri Apr 27 10:08:52 CDT 2001

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> An SS/5 w/64 Meg of RAM and a remote file system (is that /usr or /home user directory that is remote?) or two, is not a very robust machine, IMHO, esp. if you are running a current version of Solaris - 128 Meg is a much better place for Solaris 7/8...
> 
> I have an SS/5-110 at home,and while it is no speed demon, it is a reasonable box for most uses. Of course, it has a nice, big, 4 Gig HD of recent vintage (local FS), as well as 184 Meg RAM (5x 32 Meg and 3x 8 Meg)...
> 
> Remember also, like a PC, the limiting factor for many "common" user tasks may very well be the graphics card. Staroffice will feel slow if the screen updates slowly - the CPU will spend a lot of time waiting for the graphic system to catch up, for example...

Yeah, I know that about video cards.  In this case, the video card on the
10 is the zx board, just about the slowest 2d board ever made for Suns (I
hear the GT is worse, but I don't have any personal experience with it).

The remote file system is /home/username, where username is the currently
logged on person.  For some reason the admin set it up to dynamically
mount the user directories.  Bleh.  I guess that means if more than one
person is logged on then there would be multiple mounts.  But there is
seldom more than on or two people per machine.

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Joshua Boyd