Monday, December 27, 1999, 8:45:59 AM, Syafril wrote:
> Question : Mail Client is Compute Bound or I/O bound from your point
> of view ?
Neither. Mind you I ran a Fido BBS when I was 16 on a 386sx-16, 2Mb RAM
and a 40MBb IDE drive. Nothing like tossing a few thousand messages a day
from Fido, a few thousand a day from usenet and handling the email for a few
hundred users. I seriously doubt anyone in here can top the requirements of a
BBS in the high time of BBSing. That machine wasn't eithe IO or CPU bound so
neither is anyone's machine when it comes to email.
CPU/IO bound is someone trying to keep up a full newsfeed with
cross-propagation the end result of which is a single machine processing news
that fills a full T1 24/7. Only then (or more extreme cases) will I consider
something bound by CPU/IO or other such factors.
-- Steve, smacking his gums and wishing the whipper-snappers would all go
away.
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
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