Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!pasteur!ames!necntc!dandelion!ulowell!eagle!arosen From: arosen@eagle.ulowell.edu (MFHorn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Vax 11/780 performance vs Sun 4/280 performance Message-ID: <7331@swan.ulowell.edu> Date: 31 May 88 18:22:28 GMT References: <14968@brl-adm.ARPA> <601@modular.UUCP> Sender: news@swan.ulowell.edu Reply-To: arosen@hawk.ulowell.edu (MFHorn) Organization: University of Lowell, CS Dept. Lines: 12 In article <601@modular.UUCP> olson@modular.UUCP (Jon Olson) writes: > there is a knee in the performance curve of the Sun-4/280 at > 15 processes > And the Sun-3's are no better: the knee there is >7 processes. Some time ago I saw a Sun 3/280 with a load average of 17+. There were 17 'extra' jobs running. I don't know what they were doing (they weren't mine), but there was no [noticable] degradation in response time at all. Andy Rosen | arosen@hawk.ulowell.edu | "I got this guitar and I ULowell, Box #3031 | ulowell!arosen | learned how to make it Lowell, Ma 01854 | | talk" -Thunder Road RD in '88 - The way it should be