[rescue] Total corporate madness (

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Thu Aug 7 10:19:41 CDT 2003


On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 05:32 AM, Frank Van Damme wrote:
>>    Well, for every *active* connection maybe.  But big AlphaServers 
>> have
>> amazing I/O bandwidth.  It's hard to make an AS4100 sweat.  I'm not
>> even running all four procs right now because of a NetBSD bug...it's
>> running uniprocessor, and never hits a load average of 1!
>
> Argl, an SMP box running NetBSD... what a waste! I would expect tru64 
> or
> Linux...

   I dislike Tru64, and the box is critical to my income so I won't run 
Linux on it.  The system has never crashed or misbehaved in any way.  
And it's *screaming* fast.

   I trust NetBSD 100%, with good reason.

      -Dave

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