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From: bagchi@eecs.umich.edu (Ranjan Bagchi)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: Speaking of load averages...
Message-ID: <BAGCHI.91Mar26183134@snarf.eecs.umich.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 91 23:31:34 GMT
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In-Reply-To: afoiani@nmsu.edu's message of 26 Mar 91 19:10:00 GMT

In article <AFOIANI.91Mar26121000@avanti.nmsu.edu> afoiani@nmsu.edu (Anthony "Tkil" Foiani) writes:
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>
>Here's one from last semester sometime:
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>8:21am  up 4 days, 23:12,  5 users,  load average: 279.77, 278.75, 270.68
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>This is on a Sun 4/280, running SunOS 4.0.3c [or something].
>
>Cheers,
>Tony
>--
>Tony Foiani  a.k.a. Tkil  (afoiani@nmsu.edu) or (mcsajf@nmsuvm1.bitnet)
>Supporting:  Unix / DOS / VMS / Macintosh / "What's this?"
>"But, although we make records for a hard world, we make records for
>a hard world that you can get by in, and that you can have fun in,
>that you can get off on." - Andrew Eldritch of The Sisters Of Mercy
> 

	My God!...what in hell were these 5 users running?  I'd like
to see the ps table...

	(Of course, near the end of the semester when the beginning
programming classes are getting near done, their designated machine
gets pretty slow.  I've been tempted to do an /etc/halt and see how
long it takes people to notice...)
 
	-rj

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