kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz) (01/08/90)
Maybe someone out there has a solution to a problem... I'm looking for a computer system that can handle very large numbers of executing processes .. none of which use that much cpu time individually. The system must run unix - BSD based ideally (or must have BSD compatible networking). Overall spead isn't all that crucial, a couple of vax mips would probably be sufficient, but I'm looking to be running (constantly when it matters) at a bsd style load average of over 50, perhaps 100. While I'm doing that I don't want all of the available processor and memory bandwidth used for the context switches. I also don't want anything too expensive .. something that is able to run 100 simultaneous processes well by supplying 25 processors, so each has to cope with only 4 context switches a second is almost certainly going to be too expensive. Finally, it must be something available now, not coming sometime in the future. Any sugegstions? kre kre@munnari.oz.au uunet!munnari!kre