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From: amir@smsc.sony.com (Amir 806)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: ~8-job "knee" in response curves on Suns (was Re: IBM RS6000)
Message-ID: <1991Jan19.072208.11448@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 19 Jan 91 07:22:08 GMT
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One word of warning.  One has to be careful in using the benchmark as the
speed of context switches.  It uses pipes which have been implemented with
varying degrees of efficiencies on different versions of Unix.

It is however, an excellent test of the of the number of contexts
a system can handle with best efficiency (as the author intended).
-- 
Amir H. Majidimehr
Operating Systems Group
Sony Microsystems
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