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From: dhawk@well.UUCP (David Hawkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: Dynix load average
Message-ID: <11591@well.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 15:50:49 GMT
References: <2470@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <67727@pyramid.pyramid.com> <880@maestro.htsa.aha.nl>
Reply-To: dhawk@well.UUCP (David Hawkins)
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In the referenced article, hanst@htsa.UUCP (Hans Trompert) wrote:
>If you want a GOOD load average, try a parallel make with 50 source files
>(the nethack sources will do fine), that will do the trick !!
>On our Sequent (Balance 8000 with 8 CPU's) it results in a load average above
>10.0. The only problem is the size of your swap space, you run quickly out
>of memory. Try it and have fun ?!!

Hmm, odd.  We compiled nethack on the B8 and the load average only
went up to 1.60 -- and there were 10 users or so online who didn't
even notice.  (That was with a parallel make, by the way.)  We did get
a 2.30 load average yesterday doing a parallel make of   gcc and had
about 23 users online.  (We do have 16 megs of memory and 6 CPU's.)

later, david
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David Hawkins       {apple,pacbell,hplabs,ucbvax}!well!dhawk
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