On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > Not really. The customer whose box this is chose this much memory > > because his previous server was a 256MB UltraSparc that was swamped all the > > time with a load of 6 to 7. > Alas, since Solaris doesn't overcommit... :-)
This isn't a comment meant to contribute to the overcommit holy war (opinion mode: I think FreeBSD should overcommit, or at worst have a sysctl and default to overcommit - admins who don't want overcommit can then hang themselves), but we have to be a wee bit careful when throwing load averages around... I've seen FreeBSD boxes virtually unuseable with 3-4 loads, and Solaris boxes still chugging away at 5+... Perhaps 'load average' is being calculated a wee bit differently. -- Mike Hoskins <m...@adept.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
