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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: 4.2's memory needs on a 750
Message-ID: <318@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 29-Apr-84 14:33:59 EDT
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Posted: Sun Apr 29 14:33:59 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 30-Apr-84 01:00:14 EDT
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With our load average tending to run > 10 during the afternoon there was no
way our Vax 750 was going to survive under 4.2 with only 2 Mb.  We got more
memory and are now running 6.5 Mb.  We remember that period as a very miserable
time.  I almost got lynched for bringing up 4.2.  The disturbing thing was that
the system seemed to get quite noticably slow whenever the load average got
above 5.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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