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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!decuac!pa.dec.com!vixie From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] Problems installing cnews/nn Date: 4 Dec 92 13:43:23 Organization: DEC Network Software Lab Lines: 17 Message-ID: <VIXIE.92Dec4134323@cognition.pa.dec.com> References: <1992Nov27.153032.10611@uropax.contrib.de> <1fav2bINN2ie@tricky.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl> <ByI76y.75o@world.std.com> <VIXIE.92Nov30104256@cognition.pa.dec.com> <ByK57p.3M6@world.std.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cognition.pa.dec.com In-reply-to: geoff@world.std.com's message of Tue, 1 Dec 1992 01:52:36 GMT [Geoff Collyer] > [Paul Vixie] >> in BSD-land it's a bad thing to have 200 processes in the run queue. > > It's even worse in SunOS-land, but that's going to have to be fixed > eventually. Warping and twisting every application is not the right > answer. I would never argue that heavy-weight processes were a good idea or that they shouldn't be fixed. Meanwhile, I've got this huge pile of computers and I need appropriately-designed applications for them. Exit C News, stage left. -- Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab Palo Alto, California, USA "Don't be a rebel, or a conformist; <vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie they're the same thing, anyway. Find <paul@vix.com> vixie!paul your own path, and stay on it." -me