Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!rick From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Vax 11/780 performance vs Sun 4/280 performance Summary: Sun 3/160 has a real knee at about 7 active processes Message-ID: <44365@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> Date: 6 Jun 88 17:54:20 GMT References: <15875@brl-adm.ARPA> Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA Lines: 9 Last year when seismo (a Sun 3/160) was still passing mail around, there was a VERY obvious performance degradation when the 8th or 9th sendmail became active. (No we didn't run out of memory. That happened at about 14 sendmails) I have always attributed it to the 7 user contexts. ---rick