[comp.unix.wizards] UNIX-WIZARDS Digest V5#073

weiser.pa@xerox.com (06/23/88)

"Some  people wanted to know if the Knee showed up in a Sun 386i Road Runner.
I tried this program yesterday with 100000 changed to 25000.  Performance
drops off the edge of usefulness at about 20 processes.   -Joel Clark"

But it drop via a knee (in which 18 was just fine, 19 a little bad, 20
unusable), or linearly?

-mark

joel@intelisc.UUCP (Joel Clark) (06/23/88)

In article <16261@brl-adm.ARPA> weiser.pa@xerox.com writes:
>"Some  people wanted to know if the Knee showed up in a Sun 386i Road Runner.
>I tried this program yesterday with 100000 changed to 25000.  Performance
>drops off the edge of usefulness at about 20 processes.   -Joel Clark"
>
>But it drop via a knee (in which 18 was just fine, 19 a little bad, 20
>unusable), or linearly?
>
>-mark

YES, exactly so.     -Joel Clark