Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!devnull Newsgroups: alt.hackers From: cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann) Subject: Re: Speaking of load averages... Message-ID: <1991Mar29.005015.11334@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Summary: Sorry, Bryant, I just HAVE to post this Organization: Ziebmef home away from home References: <7557@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Distribution: alt Date: 29 Mar 91 05:50:15 GMT Approved: root@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu (Mr Root to you) Lines: 30 | Article 4404 of uw.mfcf.bugs: | Newsgroups: uw.mfcf.bugs | Path: news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!rblander | From: Robyn Landers | Subject: orchid the amazing wonder machine! | Message-ID: <1991Mar28.162925.375@watmath.waterloo.edu> | Sender: rblander@watmath.waterloo.edu (Robyn Landers) | Organization: University of Waterloo | Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1991 16:29:25 GMT | Lines: 12 | | | Check this out!! | | 11:24am up 7732 days, 6:45, 1 user, load average: 2713601.58, 103456.43, -3 | 039.94 | | Orchid has been up for over 20 years, and one single person is | running some HUMUNGOUS job to put the load average at 2.7 million! | I guess the kernel was dispatching processes that weren't ready to | run for a while there when the load average was negative 3000. | | I did not make this stuff up. Ask Asokan. -- "This is what separates us system programmers from the application programmers: we can ruin an entire machine and then recover it, they can only ruin their own files and then get someone else to restore them" - Geoff Collyer cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu ...!{utgpu,utzoo,watmath}!utgpu!cks