Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!littlei!intelisc!joel From: joel@intelisc.UUCP (Joel Clark) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: UNIX-WIZARDS Digest V5#073 Message-ID: <282@intelisc.UUCP> Date: 23 Jun 88 15:22:34 GMT References: <16261@brl-adm.ARPA> Reply-To: joel@intelisc.UUCP (Joel Clark) Organization: Intel Scientific Computer, Beaverton, OR Lines: 11 In article <16261@brl-adm.ARPA> weiser.pa@xerox.com writes: >"Some people wanted to know if the Knee showed up in a Sun 386i Road Runner. >I tried this program yesterday with 100000 changed to 25000. Performance >drops off the edge of usefulness at about 20 processes. -Joel Clark" > >But it drop via a knee (in which 18 was just fine, 19 a little bad, 20 >unusable), or linearly? > >-mark YES, exactly so. -Joel Clark