Subject: Re: But why?
To: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com>
From: Curt Sampson <curt@portal.ca>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/24/1996 14:48:56
On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Christian Kuhtz wrote:

> > >   Your workstation is probably idle right now, while you read this.
> >
> > No it isn't, I have 40 copies of crashme chugging along with an uptime
> > of 10 days.  I fire them off from my init scripts at boot time.
> 
> For performance analysis and comparison studies, this can hardly be a common  
> baseline a large user population, or anything even near noticable, is  
> sharing with you. q.e.d.

But I thought he was saying that if I switcheed from my otherwise-idle
NetBSD machine to a Linux machine running 40 copies of crashme I'd see
better performance. :-)

cjs

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