[rescue] ss2 under load

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:58:19PM -0500, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > I thought that the SS2 was supposed to be better than the IP? machines, plus
> > obviously the 1 and 1+.  Till now, no sparc I ever used had a load above 1
> > for more than an instant or 2.  Most of my sparc experience has been on 5s,
> > a 10 and a 330.
> 
> The 2 and the IPX are almost equivalent.  The main difference is the IPX
> has 8 hardware contexts and the 2 has 16.  Other than that, they are
> almost identical architecture wise.

I'm not exactly sure what those hardware contexts are (is that the number of
windows in the register file?), but I was under the impression that more meant
better under heavy load.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd