> IRIX 6.5 on the Indy. The impression I get from comments on BUM and/or
> AMMRL and some discussion with various people is that the Indy performance
> nose dives under 6.5 no matter how much memory you may add to it. There is
The Indy performance under 6.5 won't be better than under 5.3,
but with additional main memory it is acceptable. As IRIX 6.5
consumes more space on the system disk, you need at least a
2 GB system disk.
Please note that we have no experience with upgrade installs from
IRIX 5.3 to IRIX 6.5. We did not encounter any problems with
IRIX 6.5 scratch installs choosing xfs as system disk file system
and at least 128 MB swap sapce.
> I have installed all
> the IRIX 5.3 patches that came on the xwinnmr 2.6 CD, so presumably I have
> all that Bruker recommends for 5.3. I don't really know whether those
> patches will yield Y2K compliance or not.
Please note, that there are 3 Y2K relevant patches:
Patch SG0003725: Irix 5.3 date command rollup + Y2k
Patch SG0003735: Availmon 2.1 and IRIX Crash rollup For IRIX 5.3 + Y2K
Patch SG0003756: Irix 5.3 libc rollup + y2k fixes
replacing patches 2368, 3175, 3176 which were released too late to
make their way onto the XWIN-NMR 2.6 CD. These patches are available
from the SGI web site. I recommend to install these patches also.
I found IRIX 5.3 with the patches from the XWIN-NMR CD (which are
the SGI recommended plus security and Y2K patches) a very stable
and reliable OS and I would stay with it.
With best regards,
Werner Mausshardt
-- Werner Mausshardt E-mail: werner.mausshardt@bruker.de Software Department Tel: +49 721 5161 448 Bruker Analytik GmbH Fax: +49 721 5161 480