Subject: Performance question about NetBSD/sparc -current
To: (NetBSD/sparc Maillist) <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: David Brownlee <D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/15/1995 17:06:13
I'm trying to moniter a series of machines, variously NetBSD,
SunOS 4.1, and Solaris 2.3, and I noticed the rup (or equiv)
value for a NetBSD machine is very much lower than for a SunOS
or Solaris machine at the same perceived load.
Ie 16Mb ss1 running 4.1.3u1 with 30 users has load of 3.3
16Mb ELC running NetBSD/1.0A with 23 users has load of 0.3
But the ELC is very much more sluggish.
This isn't a 'why can't NetBSD be faster moan' - I'm sure people
are too busy to even respond to that, but a 'can the values returned
from rup be comarable to a SunOS machine' - as we have an automatic
redirector which picks the lowest loaded machine, which is always
NetBSD, even when a SunOS machine is a much better choice...
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