Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM!nsb From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: messages/vui speeds Message-ID:Date: 22 Sep 89 15:27:41 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 6 I'm sure the big problem is simply memory; if you run vui, you use only a fraction of the memory you use by running Messages. On a 4 MB machine, Messages pages like crazy, which makes it slow, whereas vui can run with little or no paging, especially if you're not even running X at all. On the other hand, if you run on a machine with enough memory, vui and messages run at about the same speed. -- NB