Vax 11/780 performance vs Sun 4/280 performance

[MFHorn]

In article <601 at modular.UUCP> olson at modular.UUCP (Jon Olson) writes:
> there is a knee in the performance curve of the Sun-4/280 at > 15 processes
> And the Sun-3's are no better: the knee there is >7 processes.

Some time ago I saw a Sun 3/280 with a load average of 17+.  There were
17 'extra' jobs running.  I don't know what they were doing (they weren't
mine), but there was no [noticable] degradation in response time at all.

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