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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: FreebBSD 2.0.5-R crashes every 2 DAYS!!
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 16:21:04 GMT
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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.
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