From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 17 21:31:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD51C37B4C5 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 21:31:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13x0co-0000DM-00; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:33:18 -0700 Message-ID: <3A16149E.B2B42267@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:33:18 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: barry@Lustig.COM Cc: Terry Lambert , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "iowait" CPU state References: <200011151730.KAA12666@usr01.primenet.com> <20001115204128.12980.qmail@devious.lustig.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Barry Lustig wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > I'm always tempted to set up a company where the main > > engineers have a centralized batch compile server, so as to > > not slow down developement, but requiring that they run no > > better than a 386SX/16 on their desktop. If they are good, > > I'd give them a full 8M of real RAM, instead of 4M. > > > > That's what they did at NeXT. The engineers got machines with slower > processors and small amounts of RAM. It was designed to encourage them to > produce fast efficient code. So all you guys running dual PIIIs send them to me, I'll replace them with some lovely dual PPro's with 32MB RAM. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message