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From: tkacik@rphroy.UUCP (Tom Tkacik)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Moire for the UNIX PC
Keywords: moire than a mouthfull is too much
Message-ID: <18828@rphroy.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 89 17:41:35 GMT
References: <2449@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>
Reply-To: tkacik@rphroy.UUCP (Tom Tkacik)
Organization: GM Research Labs, Warren, MI
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In article <2449@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> motteler@umbc3.UMBC.EDU (Howard E. Motteler) writes:
>Tom Tkacik's moire program, posted in unix-pc.sources, is a lot of
>fun.  I especially like being able to resize on the fly.  You can
>start it up with nice, so it doesn't consume too much resource, and
>just leave it in a background window...

I am glag you like it.

I had seven copies of moire running, and watched Lenny's sysinfo program
as it showed the load average reach 6.5.  It was interesting to watch
the scheduler as it decided which copy to run next.  Things got very jerky.
Of coarse I was not able to do much else at the time :-).

Has anyone ever seen a higher load average?
How high can it go and still let you work interactively?
Thanks Lenny, sysinfo is a great program.
-- 
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