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

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 16:44, 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.
> 

you should try a quad HS125 setup.  they made them with 256K and 512K
cache per processor.  I have a 20 with quad 125 with 512K per proc.

I don't run it much as I need to come up with better cooling.  I don't
like boxes that run too hot (IMHO of course)... heat=death.  I was 
running it for a while with a 3 fan fan tray that happened to be
twice as tall as a 20... so I put it blowing into a stack of 20 SS20s.

Would like to find something better though.

> 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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