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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.advocacy:14877 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:3990 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!bcm.tmc.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!nmtigw!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: FreebBSD 2.0.5-R crashes every 2 DAYS!! Message-ID: <id._GYL1.XU4@nmti.com> Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva) Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI References: <3urlmb$7co@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> <3us8mc$17j@agate.berkeley.edu> <3uu8ao$4ts@blob.best.net> <3v30fc$ep4@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 16:21:04 GMT Lines: 27 In article <3v30fc$ep4@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au>, Robert Brockway <ec531667@student.uq.edu.au> wrote: > evaluating various PC-Unices in the US found that Linux operated the most > efficiently under loads up to 25. Since no one in there right mind would > run a machine with a system load of 25 (have you ever seen a load > of 10? :-) this makes Linux the most efficient under heavy load for all > usable system loads. Wimps. The Cory Hall 11/70 routinely ran with load averages up around 35, and occasionally higher, as finals week approached. That's with 60-70 users on an 11/70 with 2MB of RAM. So it took you five minutes to log in, and running nroff while school was in session was grounds for losing your account, we're talking about a system taking a beating. Running BSD. You could always switch to the math/stat machine, an 11/60 with 256kB, where with more than two users running vi nobody could get anything done. That one was running Version 6. BSD was too big. -- Peter da Silva (NIC: PJD2) `-_-' Network Management Technology Incorporated 'U` 1601 Industrial Blvd. Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA +1 713 274 5180 "Har du kramat din varg idag?"