Re: Good news for SPARC/Linux

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Sun, 13 Dec 1998 04:22:16 -0500 (EST)


On Sat, 12 Dec 1998 ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 12:11:30AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
>
> > Come on, people, with 2 Gigs of main memory, spending 1.3% for the kernel
> > should be considered a Lesser Offense, especially because this number
> > includes all the dynamic stuff (you need _some_ memory to remember what the
> > 2 GB are actually used for).
> >
> > Needless to say, I want one of these... though I wonder if there is _any_
> > real-world application which 14 CPUs would speed up 14 times.
>
> Sales droids.

Nope. Sales droids get > 14x speedup.. Sales droiads speed is perportional
to system cost.. That system with 14 cpus is more then one with 1*14..

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