🚀 go-pugleaf

   We have a Symmetry S27 with 6 CPUs that's used for general class
instruction (compile/link/go users with a few math/stats packages
thrown in on the side).  We've recently run into problems with
interactive response (we average somewhere around twenty to forty
concurrent users). From looking at `vmstat` output, we're apparently
swapping a fair amount.

   So, it looks like we're in need of memory. We currently have 8Mbytes
(most likely shocking to the sys admin's reading this newsgroup).
Anyway, I was wondering what other types of memory/processor/job mixes
folks are running. Please send me email, and I'll summarize to the
net as appropriate.

   BTW, we called our local Sequent sales rep to ask what their opinion
was of our problem. The standard vendor response was given (but appropriate
in this case, I suspect):

	"Buy more <insert_vendor_name> memory...."

The sales rep said that they recommend somewhere between 4 and 8 Mbytes
per processor. Is that a common configuration? Anyway get away with
running less? Under what job mix?

			- Scott -


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Scott Morgan [SM137]					Phone: (505) 277-8137
Systems Programmer /
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UNM CIRT/ACS
2701 Campus Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87131

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