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I don't think very many of them are designed to run for a prolonged periods of time at 100% CPU utilization. Ever heard of Adobe Flashplayer AKA the laptop melt

I don't think very many of them are designed to run for a prolonged periods of time at 100% CPU utilization. Ever heard of Adobe Flashplayer AKA the laptop melter? :-) Moreover, laptops often have inferior FSB bandwidth which further amplifies "fast CPU/slow RAM" bottleneck often seen in multi-tasking server environments.

qjz 17y ago
I definitely have lightweight servers in mind, where prolonged 100% CPU usage would be rare. These would basically be headless Linux servers where X11 isn't even running (samba, mail, web, DNS, etc.), with the bonus that a keyboard & display is readily available if you want to log on locally and fire up a window manager for some reason (pretty graphs and the like).