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From: cfchiesa@bsu-cs.UUCP (Christopher Chiesa)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: What resources does an idle process tie up ... or why have
Summary: 'Nother figure...
Message-ID: <3200@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 29 May 88 03:25:19 GMT
References: <8805270320.AA07440@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <3199@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <3199@bsu-cs.UUCP>, I wrote:

> Here at Ball State University, the entire four-node Vaxcluster is completely
> shut down from 5PM Friday night til 8AM Saturday morning for backups, main-
> tenance, and who knows what else...
> 
> Of course, this is a HUGE system (comments on this next quote are solicited):
> our system manager quotes a figure of about 25,000 users...  (Not all at the
> same time, of course, but that's about right, in terms of the number of 
> accounts living on the system, by my own experience.)

I'd meant to add that typical system use is between 180 and 200 interactive
users, during "peak" periods that I'VE seen personally.

Chris Chiesa

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