From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 24 10:23:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from snafu.adept.org (adsl-63-193-112-19.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.112.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6096815163 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 10:23:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@snafu.adept.org) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by snafu.adept.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA02778; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 10:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 10:20:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Hoskins To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Adrian Filipi-Martin , Vincent Poy , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's In-Reply-To: <37981F93.54C40B75@newsguy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message