[Info-vax] web browsers for VMS on ALPHA

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<12cb4281-3554-4a65-b4a5-419145a3e2a3 at d12g2000vbz.googlegroups.com>,
John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> writes: 

> Usual responses to "it is too slow" apply - what resource limit is
> causing the perceived slow performance? CPU? 

No---EV67.

> Memory? 

No---2 GB.

> Disk IO? 

I don't think so.  Bottleneck is the BA356, which limits speed to 
20 MB/s (disks and controllers are faster).

> Network
> IO? 

The network card is 100 Mb/s and the DSL connection is 16 Mb/s.

> And proceed from there. It would seem fairly unlikely that an EV6
> doing simple web browsing would be compute bound, but confirming where
> the bottleneck lies is what MONITOR is for.

I haven't rebooted since bringing this machine into the cluster; some 
things are probably not optimal.  Will investigate more after the reboot 
(did an AUTOGEN after a few days of uptime).