On Tue, 1 Nov 1994 14:01:59 EST, Melinda Varian wrote:
>We have been evaluating the ADSM DOS client. We have succeeded in
>backing up and restoring one disk, but we haven't found the restore
>process to be very satisfactory. The machine is an 8M PS/2 Model 80.
>The disk in question has 4100 files (occupying 40M on the server).
>
>We were unable to restore all of the files at once. When we tried that,
>the number at the upper right-hand corner (which appears to be a measure
>of memory remaining) fell from 269K to 58K. Then we got a message saying
>that the files were being sorted. After about an hour (with no sign of
>any activity at all), the sort completed and 5 files were restored. Then
>we got the failure ANS1721E. That happened several times.
>
>We next tried doing the restore in pieces. It took 15 minutes to sort
>2331 files, again with no sign of activity while that was going on.
>
>Ultimately, we were able to restore all of the files, and they compared
>correctly, so all was well, but we really don't think we can give this
>to end users, because of the long "dead" times.
>
>We don't understand why the sorts take so long, and it looks to us as
>though the ADSM client is not taking advantage of the extended memory
>on this machine. How does this compare with what others are seeing?
>Do we have something misconfigured?
>
>Melinda Varian
>Princeton University
I was going to reply to Melinda directly, but I think some configuration
changes must have been made because the address in the To: field on my
mailer seems to be usable and I wanted to test it.
Melinda, it sounds like you're still using an ancient client, but I doubt
this is the case--at least not intentionally. It is 1.2.0.3--right?
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