In article <1992Oct20.114131.10848@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes:

   I load 10 xterms, and about 50 bash before key response becomes noticeable
   slow.

your benchmark says little or nothing;
there is basically no usage of the CPU, except to start the processes,
as they are almost all blocked, and there shouldn't even be much memory
used, because of shared text...

<sigh>

cgd
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Chris G. Demetriou                                    cgd@cs.berkeley.edu

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