Re: Load Averages

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From: c... Christopher Davis
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 23:03

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>>>>> On 14 Dec 89 21:42:36 GMT, jda...@pinocchio.encore.com (Jeff d'Arcy)
>>>>> said:

 > XXXXXXX       up    22:32,     0 users,  load 12171.07, 10732.14, 9610.87
 > (I replaced the host name with Xs because it's not one the public should
 > know about)

I had something like that happen once around here.  Got on a Sun 3/60 up in
the graphics lab, started an X windows session (including an xload window)
and noticed that the xload window was BLACK.  As in completely dark.

Did an uptime and got some number like 23094.1 for the load average (I was
the only user, 8M 3/60M, and it was actually fairly zippy...).  With a 100
pixel high xload, and the line scale at 1, it was trying to draw 23095
scale lines.  :-)

I changed machines out of superstition (there were very few folks in the
lab) and it went back to normal eventually (I'm not sure if it was rebooted
at some point or not, though).
-- 
 Christopher Davis, BU SMG '90  <c...@bu-pub.bu.edu> <smghy6c@buacca.bitnet>
"Many verbal attacks are part of someone's aim to establish their rank in a
 dominance hierarchy, the same sort of behavior common among nesting fowl."
                                     --Daniel Mocsny <dmo...@uceng.UC.EDU>

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Subject: Re: Load Averages
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Date: 14 Dec 89 23:03:32 GMT
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