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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
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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