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Subject: Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load
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>> but just run 100 different things and check how responsive machine is.
>
> My experience is of dealing with servers where each machine typically has
> a small number of important applications -- frequently only /one/ application

so why you need unix at all? :)


> I can't speak to the model of needing to run hundreds of different

what is what i do. put everything on one server, only dividing things on 
many when one is unable to cope (very rare case).

> applications on the same server -- about the closest thing I have to that
> is my personal laptop (but only dozens of apps, rather than hundreds), and
> other than being vaguely aware that it seems to be working adequately, I've

try as simple and stupid thing under load

cat /dev/zero >somefile (on big partition)

on 6.* and 7.* and compare both cases.

:)