[auton-users] AFS access, ALPHA underusage

Jacob Joseph jmjoseph at andrew.cmu.edu
Fri Jan 31 12:19:41 EST 2003


On Friday 31 January 2003 07:52, Brent Bryan wrote:
> > ALPHAS:  Lately, the Pentium 4 machines have been getting hit pretty
> > hard, yet the Alphas remain largely unused.  Only 2 of 8 processors are
> > being utilized. I'm curious why.  Take a look at
> > http://www.autonlab.org/status
>
> Jacob,
>   For me it is because only one of the alphas currently has AFS access (or
> did when I checked the other day).  Since I have to recompile my code to
> work on the alphas, it usually isn't worth it for just one more process;
> hence, I preferrentially use the intel(ish) boxes.
>
>
> Also, the new stats on the graphs for the summary page are nice.  The font
> is a little small, and I am not sure how useful the min and max stats are,
> but the current and avg stats are great.  thanks.

Do you think it would be less cluttered without the min and max?  It's trivial 
to remove them.

-Jacob




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