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
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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