From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!Onyx:harymudd
Newsgroups: net.general
Title: Re: How many readers ARE there???...
Article-I.D.: ucbonyx.372
Posted: Wed Dec  1 21:01:27 1982
Received: Fri Dec  3 05:50:01 1982

	The method you mentioned of overloading a VAX UNIX doesn't work very
well.  The best way is a process that forks itself (somebody during October
did that to Vax Populi thru unauthorized use of my account).  The second best
way, although I haven't tried it on UNIX yet since it doesn't have the
software I used, is to have a process with loads of I/O.  Using last year's
version of Datatrieve (Certain people at test sites who are reading this
should know about this), I was able to bring a VAX 11/780 using a five
factor cross command.  That was fun...
	One of the more popular ways to slow down a VAX UNIX in Berkeley is
to load many students on it.  Fourty people running the pascal compilier at
once tends to do it.
	One note to your posting is that in Berkeley on the major class
machines, readnews is suppose to be found, not known about.
	Live Long and Prosper, and May the Force Be With You...