On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Gino Ruopolo wrote: > Why "load average" is not interesting? > (if I remember well load value is # of runnable process waiting for cpu ...)
You remember wrongly. :-) The load average is the number of runnable processes PLUS the number of running processes. > Unfortunately my experience on SPARC is low. > Usually, on application with few single threads, I've found SPARC really slow. Depends on the app, but in general I would agree. > Now I'm working with an application that is showing really good > performance on old USIII cpu and I'm trying to see if company choice to > move to Opterons (based on SPEC numbers over $$ :) ) is really a good > choice. The numbers speak for themselves! If your apps are a good match for US-III's attributes and large cache sizes, it's quite possible that they will out perform Opteron-based machines. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
