From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a3ca574fc2007430 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,f41f1f25333fa601 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public From: wmilam@ford.com (William P. Milam) Subject: Re: Ada and Automotive Industry Date: 1996/11/15 Message-ID: <56ifpb$201@fmsrlw.srl.ford.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 196712013 references: <3280DA96.15FB@hso.link.com> <1996Nov6.210957.3070@ole.cdac.com> organization: Ford Research Laboratory newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.realtime Date: 1996-11-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , eachus@spectre.mitre.org says... > > But again from experience, I had to configure the machine, or >preformance was piggish. No one little thing, but following all the >advice that I put in the installation manual usually resulted in about >a 100x speedup. The systems were shipped to run on minumum hardware, >in particular minimum memory. Going to a (big for then) 2 Meg >configuration and increasing (lots of) buffer sizes in the OS >eliminated a lot of thrashing, mostly by the OS. >-- > How many automotive system have 1 meg of memory? Zero! We measure memory in Kilobytes......cost of memory (heck silicon) is too much of an issue when a single company comsumes in the millions per year... BTW it's kilobytes of total memory...ram and rom... -- ************************************************ * * * All opinions herein expressed are mine and * * mine alone. You may choose to ignore them * * but I own them. Heck, my kids don't listen * * to me, why should you? * * * * Email: wmilam@ford.com * ************************************************