Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just had my system reporting the following load: > > 6:35pm up 2:22, 4 users, load average: 23.37, 77.76, 47.23 > > How many commercial Unices would have supported that, without anything > crashing (syslogd still here - nothing in the logs) ?
'Tis nothing. I once worked on a Encore Multimax (4XPC) running a 4.3 BSD variant that got so far as a load of over 200 before it recovered. But we (read: 4 users out of the 150 logged in) were *trying* to kill it. I've seen the PowerPC SMP AIXen here drive upwards of a few hundred and still recover as well. Personally, I've never driven my linux boxen over 2. 8) -- Cerebus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]