[plt-scheme] nonstandard installation

From: Geoffrey S. Knauth (geoff at knauth.org)
Date: Sat Nov 29 09:39:27 EST 2008

On Nov 29, 2008, at 00:52, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> JFYI, my experience with sparc-solaris machines in a few places is
> that using NFS can make things extremely slow (and if you see high
> system time, then that's most likely it).  You can try to copy it to a
> machine local directory (like /var/tmp -- I think that on most solaris
> configurations /tmp is a memory FS) to factor out the NFS delay.

NFS affecting initial load time was going to be my first guess, from  
years of using networked Suns.

I have Sparc 30 (I think) in my attic on which I can try a standalone  
test.  I don't remember what version of Solaris is on the machine.



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