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Xref: sserve comp.sys.sun.misc:8799 comp.sys.sun.admin:15740 comp.unix.solaris:4760 comp.unix.bsd:12307 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!psinntp!bacon!jordan From: jordan@IMSI.COM (Jordan Hayes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 (SunOS 4.1.3) on Classic/LX Message-ID: <8375@bacon.IMSI.COM> Date: 21 Jul 93 11:52:23 GMT References: <221lob$8ph@mail.fwi.uva.nl> Sender: news@bacon.IMSI.COM Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.misc Organization: Investment Management Services Inc., NYC Lines: 14 Casper H.S. Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl> writes: Solaris 2.2 is slow when it comes to context switching. Much slower than SunOS 4.1.x. Can you quantify "much slower" ...? One thing that we've seen here with an application is that once it starts context switching heavily (over 1500/minute), the performance falls off drastically. [ SS10-41, 128Mb, 4.1.3 ] /jordan