From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 30 23:08:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA17540 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 23:08:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA17533 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 23:08:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xRB9r-0002Mi-00; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 23:06:15 -0800 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 23:06:13 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory VS. Performance under FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote: > Does anybody have any statistics on memory vs. performance as you go to > large memory configurations (>64MB), also what is the biggest RAM > configuration possible on a FreeBSD machine? > > Kind of something like: > > RAM for x USERS for x MEAN PROCESSES vs x DISK ACCESS That is impossible given your specifications. For example, what is a "user"? What does this "user" do? What are these "processes", and what do they do? Tom