[geeks] SS20's are really nice machines :)

[Brian]

Load of 63, that seems way high, is it still usable?  I got my load up to
15 on an x86 fbsd box last night, that was the highest I had gotten it.


	Brian

The path to a desireable destination
is often more difficult than the path to stay where you are.

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Kevin Lee wrote:

> I have never owned any sun4m machines as this quad ss20 is my first.
>
> I am completely amazed and stunned at the speed of its 4   50mhz processors.
>
> using make -j4 it runs and compiles quite nicely and is responsive:
>
> last pid:  6137;  load averages: 63.20, 28.61, 13.70
> 13:35:16
> 86 processes:  66 sleeping, 34 running, 4 on cpu
> CPU states:  0.0% idle, 91.0% user,  9.0% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
> Memory: 256M real, 47M free, 220M swap in use, 468M swap free
>
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> SunOS lopez.c0rp.com 5.8 Generic_108528-23 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-20
>
> I have owned several sun big iron ultra sparc boxes and always considered
> ss20/10/5/etc
> an inferior brand of sun and not worth my time.   I can see I was wrong..
>
> Cheers
> Kevin
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