[rescue] ss2 under load

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> I thought that the SS2 was supposed to be better than the IP? machines, plus
> obviously the 1 and 1+.  Till now, no sparc I ever used had a load above 1
> for more than an instant or 2.  Most of my sparc experience has been on 5s,
> a 10 and a 330.

The 2 and the IPX are almost equivalent.  The main difference is the IPX
has 8 hardware contexts and the 2 has 16.  Other than that, they are
almost identical architecture wise.

The IPC is much more like a 1+.

--Kurt