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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!ka.sub.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.sys.sun.misc Subject: Re: Sparc vs. x86 speed (was Re: Linux vs BSD) Date: 27 Jan 1997 15:10:38 +0100 Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Universit=E4t_Karlsruhe_(TH),_Germany_?= Lines: 7 Message-ID: <5cid0u$512@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32E66DE1.7E36AB48@samart.co.th> <5c8b0o$313$1@capsicum.wsrcc.com> <JASON.97Jan23151639@daffodil.cs.odu.edu> Reply-To: Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de NNTP-Posting-Host: fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:66266 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5743 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2040 comp.sys.sun.misc:28098 In comp.os.linux.networking, austin@visi.net wrote: > A load average of 1-2 on a 1 CPU machine is just about where >you want it to be. If it's not, you probably have an I/O bottleneck >of some sort. Alternatively, my machine may just be plain idle.