From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 19 21:15:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A365037B401 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:15:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from ashram.rhavenn.net (ashram.rhavenn.net [209.150.195.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0310143F75 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:15:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rhavenn@rhavenn.net) Received: from 172.20.0.144 (unknown [172.20.0.144]) by ashram.rhavenn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEBD92A848; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 23:29:05 -0600 (CST) From: Henrik Hudson Reply-To: rhavenn@rhavenn.net To: Tom Samplonius , Ryan Watson Subject: Re: Maximum recommended user limits on mail server Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 23:15:40 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303192315.40505.rhavenn@rhavenn.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday 19 March 2003 21:33, Tom Samplonius wrote: > * Put significant load on a Xeon, and it comes crawling to a stop? What > does this mean? Lots of context switches? A processor is always > executing, so it has no real concept of a little or lot of load. I think this has one hell of a lot more to do with the OS one is running. Put a load on Windows and it will come to a screaching halt and implodes on itself, but Solaris keeps on chugging, just slower. -- Henrik Hudson rhavenn@rhavenn.net You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help." Calvin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message