[rescue] ss2 under load

[Brian Hechinger]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:29:59AM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 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.

this is why i fell in love with them so long ago.  glorious.

-brian