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Date:      Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:44:41 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ELF worldstone (etc.) 
Message-ID:  <199809101544.IAA01546@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Sep 1998 09:04:26 %2B0200." <199809100704.JAA02996@semyam.dinoco.de> 

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I would say 50% should be an ideal target figure meaning that in 
a 4-way configuration you still have half of the capacity left.
200% according to the way that Mike is using it almost implies 
a uni-processor approach to measuring capacity.

	Cheers,
	Amancio


> > >Perhaps significantly, mean CPU
> > >utilisation was only a little over 200% for both worldstones.
> >                                     ^^^^^ I hope you meant 20%.
> 
> Why do you hope that?  That would mean one of the four Xeon CPUs being
> working just 20% of the time or in other words the system were just
> using 1/20th of its CPU power.  I'd prefer 400% here as then all CPUs
> were busy all the time.  With 200% its just using half its potential.
> 
> Stefan.
> -- 
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