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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.nacamar.de!Frankfurt.Germany.EU.net!Stuttgart.Germany.EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Date: 13 Mar 1997 13:53:20 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Message-ID: <5g90sg$aj6@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5fhugj$4q2@paperboy.ids.net> <331CE677.46F5@net5.net> <331CC20C.4542@fbp-ny.com> <5fj37m$oeb$1@kayrad.ziplink.net> <331E7AFE.54DC@earthlink.net> <5g5bb9$ft$1@kayrad.ziplink.net> <5g6rr5$jgo@rex.re.uokhsc.edu> <5g76gb$6c6@flea.best.net> <3327BBF9.784A@earthlink.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Lines: 13 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.sco.misc:36584 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37027 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6321 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29110 fastbit@earthlink.net wrote: > I don't understand your analysis here. If the CPU is idle and the disks > are going like crazy, it's not that the CPU is too fast -- it's the I/O > that's too slow. Where ``I/O too slow'' sometimes means that simply your users are too slow to even request the data. :-) -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j