On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:01:11PM -0800, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
> On Feb 10, 2005, at 11:29 AM, John Oliver wrote:
> >>Run multiple Linux kernel compiles on a standard x86 box.  The
> >>performance degrades much faster than one would expect given the
> >>processor and disk utilization.
> >
> >???  At the same time???  Never heard of that.  And can't see how
> >switching between kernels is going to "degrade performance".
> 
> You're missing the point.
> 
> At the same time, start a kernel compile in each of, say, 10 kernel 
> source trees on the same box.  That will show you what can happen on a 
> development machine when 10 developers all decide to build their 
> projects at the same time, in an extreme case.

I missed the word "compiles" and parsed the sentence as "Run multiple
Linux kernel instances on a standard x86 box"  Obviously, that threw me
for quite a loop... :-)

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