[rescue] ss2 under load

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Thu Feb 14 02:29:59 CST 2002


I've heard for years that SPARCs hold up better to heavy loads than intel
machines do, but I've never had a chance to test this till now.

Currently, my SS2 is compiling some stuff, and in doing so it now has a load
average of 4.  On my intel file server, when the load average gets this high,
it is sluggish as all get out, and I'm am trying to kill processes to keep 
it from crashing.  This sparc on the other hand is still perfectly responsive.

Cool.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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