Hello,
thanks again for all the prompt and helpful answers.
The initial question was:
Can we expect good performance on Alphas with 32MB running OSF/1 v32.a
Replies:
>..32MB is pretty much the bare minimum for V3.2A and earlier releases
>The good news is that the release due out this summer should have some big
>improvements in memory management that might help you out.
Dr. Thomas P. Blinn tpb_at_zk3.dec.com
Stephen Carpenter sac_at_uvo.dec.com is also suggesting to wait for the
summer release
>All our alphas has got at least 48Mbyte of memory since we found
>that 32Mbyte was not enough for doing any real work (mostly undergraduate
>students running matlab, maple etc.)
Ilja Hallberg hallberg_at_e.kth.se
>It's been my experience that 32 Mbytes is insufficient for an Alpha running
>OSF/1--we started with 32 Mbytes too and things were awfully slow. Now
>we're at 64 Mbytes and things look OK.
stam nicolis nicolis_at_celfi.phys.univ-tours.fr
>We have a mix of machines running 2.0 and 3.2 - they nearly all have 64Mb.
>The 32Mb ones are too painfully slow to be used as anything other than
>X displays with everything running remotely.
anthony baxter <anthony.baxter_at_aaii.oz.au>
Also thanks to:
Marco Luchini luchini_at_siberia.ups-tlse.fr
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Menelaos Nicholaos Karamichalis mnk_at_wuerl.wustl.edu
Brian O'Neill oneill_at_cs.uml.edu
Thanks once again!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Jiri V. Studnicka
Centre for Computing Services, phone 0171-594 6942
Imperial College of Science Technology & Medicine, fax 0171-594 6958
London SW7 2BX, England email j.studnicka_at_ic.ac.uk
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Received on Tue May 23 1995 - 06:37:28 NZST