Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 09:44:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com>, 'User Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load Message-ID: <20080510094220.T58841@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <48254EAB.3030103@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <482473B7.7070707@pixelhammer.com> <48248AC9.5060507@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20080509202941.J53368@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4824CEE7.6070605@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20080510090439.U58698@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <48254EAB.3030103@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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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. :)
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