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From: muller@sdccsu3.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: High load averages revisited
Message-ID: <1426@sdccsu3.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Dec-83 12:12:02 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 27 12:12:02 1983
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Last year toward the end of the winter quarter the CS compiler class
(200+ students strong, on a machine whose password file had over 2500
entries) drove the load average to over 100 on sdccsu3 (a large 11/780).
I suspect it got even higher that that, but I went to bed (this was
around 2 am one morning). This year that class is on a new vax 11/750 
ALL BY THEMSELVES! Measures are being taken so that a repeat of those
load averages will not occur this winter. (Thanks to the 4.2 BSD ipc
system!!).

Keith Muller
UCSD Computer Center