Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 02:29:26 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Mike Hoskins <mike@snafu.adept.org> Cc: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com>, Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's Message-ID: <3799F7F6.CD75490F@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907241015120.2736-100000@snafu.adept.org>
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Mike Hoskins wrote: > > This isn't a comment meant to contribute to the overcommit holy war > (opinion mode: I think FreeBSD should overcommit, or at worst have a > sysctl and default to overcommit - admins who don't want overcommit can > then hang themselves), but we have to be a wee bit careful when throwing > load averages around... > > I've seen FreeBSD boxes virtually unuseable with 3-4 loads, and Solaris > boxes still chugging away at 5+... Perhaps 'load average' is being > calculated a wee bit differently. I think that would rather be a function of the memory footprint of the workload. The message said memory was increased because Solaris was overloaded with _swapping_. The load itself isn't really of much importance in this case. Since Solaris does not overcommit, it needs (much) more memory than FreeBSD would. Thus, changing to FreeBSD and upgrading the memory at the same time is sure likely to give the impressive results described. Solaris is not a bad operating system. It's just misguided. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Your usefulness to my realm ended the day you made it off Hustaing alive." -- Sun Tzu Liao to his ex-finacee, Isis Marik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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