On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Lars Hecking wrote:
>> > Before a dual pentium 200, came on line, the highest it ever saw was a
> > load of 63 or so. That said, it's interactive performance was still quite
> > good...
>> I once pushed an Ultra 170 up to ~85 with a parallel build of xemacs.
> And the machine dealt with pretty well.
just curious, how is the load actually calculated?
Padraig
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