FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

[Matthew Seaman]

Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>> but just run 100 different things and check how responsive machine is.
>>
>> My experience is of dealing with servers where each machine typically has
>> a small number of important applications -- frequently only /one/ 
>> application
> 
> so why you need unix at all? :)

At the risk of belabouring the obvious:

   i) I like the price.  Free.

  ii) I like the operating environment -- CLIs aren't to everyone's taste,
      but I find they give me the freedom to do what I want without having
      to jump through a whole lot of hoops.

 iii) I like the efficiency of the OS -- you get that much more performance
      out of every machine it's like having additional servers for free. 
 
> try as simple and stupid thing under load
> 
> cat /dev/zero >somefile (on big partition)
> 
> on 6.* and 7.* and compare both cases.
> 
> :)

I thought you were pillorying synthetic benchmarks upthread?  Filling up
a partition with a file of zeros is pretty unlikely as a real-world task.

I wouldn't be too disappointed if that didn't run as fast as it possibly
could, although I would be distinctly peeved if doing that on a loaded
server took up more of the system resources than it had any right or
justification to do, to the detriment of anything else running on that
machine.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

-- 
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.                   7 Priory Courtyard
                                                  Flat 3
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey     Ramsgate
                                                  Kent, CT11 9PW

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 258 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20080510/1e1cb01e/signature.pgp