Re: Braging about fork...

["Scott Justice" <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Giving Baz's machine it's due I just watched him run it and the load average
hit 228 and the mouse was still able to move.....just and then he
control-C'd. But it survived for a ridiculously long time!
   SJ
   (Baz's flatmate)
scott@hypo.demon.co.uk / themadscotsman [at] ecosse.net
scottjustice@online-direct.net (online notification) icq #58991342

----- Original Message -----
From: Al Hudson <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk>
To: <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: Braging about fork...


>
>
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
>
> >  OK, I`ll take a six-pack of beer, please.
> >
> >  I just had to do that. Ran the fork program as a user (no resource
> > restrictions) for about 15-18 seconds before I CTRL-C`d it to halt it.
> >
> >  Load figure hit 106. :-)
> >
> >  I suppose dual PII`s help :-)
>
> Actually, the slower the better I would have thought. Apparently, the
> admins on our compute server (which is a *very* big and mean machine) had
> to reach for the big red button....
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex.
>
>
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