Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:44:41 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF worldstone (etc.) Message-ID: <199809101544.IAA01546@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Sep 1998 09:04:26 %2B0200." <199809100704.JAA02996@semyam.dinoco.de>
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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
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