"Michael J. Miller Jr." sez:
# 
# It seems like sun may have taken an approach that hurts the low end
# in order to push the performance on the high end.

Solaris is really only tangential to the discussion in that it involves
MP, but just a comment:  Solaris 2.5+ seems to perform better even
on the low end machines than do its predecessors.  A lot of the latencies
are gone, most notably the stream push/pop delays.

#define IGNORANCE
What's a P/V anyway?

				--*greywolf;