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From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Sparc vs. x86 speed (was Re: Linux vs BSD)
Date: 27 Jan 1997 15:10:38 +0100
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In comp.os.linux.networking, austin@visi.net wrote:

>	A load average of 1-2 on a 1 CPU machine is just about where
>you want it to be.  If it's not, you probably have an I/O bottleneck
>of some sort.

Alternatively, my machine may just be plain idle.