Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 10:20:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Hoskins <mike@snafu.adept.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> 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: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907241015120.2736-100000@snafu.adept.org> In-Reply-To: <37981F93.54C40B75@newsguy.com>
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On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > Not really. The customer whose box this is chose this much memory > > because his previous server was a 256MB UltraSparc that was swamped all the > > time with a load of 6 to 7. > Alas, since Solaris doesn't overcommit... :-) 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. -- Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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