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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Max Load for 386bsd
Date: 23 Oct 92 02:13:13
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.92Oct23021313@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
References: <1992Oct20.114131.10848@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
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In-reply-to: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg's message of Tue, 20 Oct 1992 11:41:31 GMT
In article <1992Oct20.114131.10848@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes:
I load 10 xterms, and about 50 bash before key response becomes noticeable
slow.
your benchmark says little or nothing;
there is basically no usage of the CPU, except to start the processes,
as they are almost all blocked, and there shouldn't even be much memory
used, because of shared text...
<sigh>
cgd
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Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"Sometimes it is better to have twenty million instructions by
Friday than twenty million instructions per second." -- Wes Clark