From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 10 08:45:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA19158 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:45:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA19145 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:45:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA01546; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:44:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199809101544.IAA01546@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Stefan Eggers cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF worldstone (etc.) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 10 Sep 1998 09:04:26 +0200." <199809100704.JAA02996@semyam.dinoco.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:44:41 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would say 50% should be an ideal target figure meaning that in a 4-way configuration you still have half of the capacity left. 200% according to the way that Mike is using it almost implies a uni-processor approach to measuring capacity. Cheers, Amancio > > >Perhaps significantly, mean CPU > > >utilisation was only a little over 200% for both worldstones. > > ^^^^^ I hope you meant 20%. > > Why do you hope that? That would mean one of the four Xeon CPUs being > working just 20% of the time or in other words the system were just > using 1/20th of its CPU power. I'd prefer 400% here as then all CPUs > were busy all the time. With 200% its just using half its potential. > > Stefan. > -- > Stefan Eggers Lu4 yao2 zhi1 ma3 li4, > Max-Slevogt-Str. 1 ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1. > 51109 Koeln > Federal Republic of Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message