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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.advocacy:13808 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:3633 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreebBSD 2.0.5-R crashes every 2 DAYS!! Date: 26 Jul 1995 20:54:34 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3v6a2a$o01@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3urlmb$7co@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> <3uu8ao$4ts@blob.best.net> <3v30fc$ep4@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au> <id._GYL1.XU4@nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <id._GYL1.XU4@nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote: >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. No kidding! That machine was *awesome*! I used to walk in there some days and there would be an entire roomful of users busily compiling, editing, etc. and we're talking ACTIVE users, not just users sitting around idle half the time. There was a queue for each and every seat, so you didn't waste any time on that box when you got a timeslice. 70 users beating on an 11/70 with 2MB of memory never failed to impress the heck out of me. Of course, you also neglect to mention that they'd re-written large portions of that BSD kernel in PDP-11 assembly, hand-optimized nine ways to heck for efficiency. A very custom setup, that one, but no less impressive. Tell that to the kids these days, they wouldn't believe you! Need 4MB just to run DOOM! [walks off muttering and popping geritol pills] Jordan