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From: kre@munnari.OZ (Robert Elz)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: run queues on Vaxen running Unix
Message-ID: <843@munnari.OZ>
Date: Sat, 1-Jun-85 15:24:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: munnari.843
Posted: Sat Jun  1 15:24:53 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 2-Jun-85 07:50:25 EDT
References: <716@burl.UUCP>
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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Summary: A larger than usual load average (prepare yourselves!)

In article <716@burl.UUCP>, rcj@burl.UUCP (R. Curtis Jackson) writes:
> Just curious to know the largest runques observed on Vaxen...
> 
> Yesterday I did one of these and the average was 40.3, with a high
> runque of 46.8!!!
> 
> Anyone seen anything worse than this?

  3:36pm  up  2:09,  37 users,  load average: 108.53, 104.78, 98.49

That's output from 4.1 something's uptime (I forget which version we
were running then, it might even have been very early 4.2), in late
October 83.  As you can see (if you understand the format) the load
was still rising.  It peaked at something over 110...

This is from munnari, a 780 with 4Mb, fpa, etc (but not "set clock fast")

The system had only been up 2 hours, as just before then the load
was SO bad that we had to reboot to get things back into a stable
state.

Robert Elz					seismo!munnari!kre

(ps: in case you're wondering, most of those users would have been
running ingres - there would also have been a bunch of f77 compiling)