Re: kernel scheduler

Andrew J. Anderson (andrew@db.erau.edu)
Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:16:07 -0500 (EST)


> > conditions. I have had a machine up to a load of 178 before, and it took
> > 3 days to get it back to normal. I know a bit of this was due to
>
> Strange. I was testing a dual PII-300 here, and had it up to a load of
> 200. It took seconds to get back to normal. A very responsive beast ;-)

Well, this was a 486DX-33 with 8 megs of ram getting slammed with
sendmail for capacity testing. Obviously we found that at the loads we
were throwing at it, it was quite insufficient.

Granted machines have gotten faster these days, but there's always room
for improvement in software :)

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