[SunRescue] [Offtopic]A most amazing thing....

[Paul Khoury]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:40:55 -0600, Aaron D. Teche wrote:

>I know this is off topic, but I felt the need to share.
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>The following is the load on a SPARC 10/30 I help admin.
>
>last pid:  3982;  load averages: 195.45, 195.39, 195.34                13:18:18
>341 processes: 145 sleeping, 195 running, 1 on cpu
>CPU states:  0.0% idle, 96.1% user,  3.9% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
>Memory: 64M real, 1984K free, 135M swap in use, 65M swap free
>
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>The machine was perfectly responsive.  Everything was well behaved except
>for sendmail, which refused to run.   The cause of this load was
>195 orphaned dtscreen processes.  They weren't using any cpu time.
>It's wonderful.
>
>I hate dt.
>
dt sucks.  Especially the extra RAM it seems to take.
When I see that kind of load at work, I'll be sure and send a snapshot of that - 'specially since
they have 300-450 users on simultaniously...