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Subject: Re: Memory VS. Performance under FreeBSD
To: tom@sdf.com (Tom)
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 23:18:30 +0000 (GMT)
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> > 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?

An interactive user is a controlling tty.

A generic user is a process group leader.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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