On Wed, 21 May 2003, Jasper Hoon wrote:

> I have installed discusware (forum software) on my uVax3100 (12MB
> Ram), but it is extremely slow. Is it normal on this MicroVax config?

Do you mean this product?  <http://www.discusware.com/discus/index.php>
Heh.  On a 12MB system, I'd say you're probably lucky it runs at all.
:-)  If you can add more memory to your VAX, that's likely to help
significantly.

> Any other suggestions for "faster" Forum software for my NetBSD/Vax?

As for web based forum software, I'd guess any of it will be fairly
painful to run under your current memory constraints; even the demands
of a vanilla Apache web server would be quite high.

I'd say that you might be better off running a local traffic netnews
server on it, like INN; then people can use news client software to
access it.  Another option might be to run a Cyrus IMAP server.
Cyrus supports shared mailboxes which can be used in a way similar
to newgroups (or forums, or BBSes, etc.)  There's always the option
of setting up a mailing list server.

None of those will be as slick or featureful as Discusware, and they
may not meet your functional requirements, but they also won't grind
your MicroVAX to a crawl.

-brian.