Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 01:43:09 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: Ian Wynne <ianw@ee.su.oz.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950418013351.3697I-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <m0s0KTy-000JnfC@cassius.ee.su.OZ.AU>
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On Sun, 16 Apr 1995, Ian Wynne wrote:
>
> I haven't posted this to any of the news groups because I thought it would
> only serve as flame bait.
Why, were you thinking of posting to comp.os.linux.advocacy? ;-)
Go ahead and post about your experiences in a *BSD or FreeBSD group,
just as a FYI.
> I use FreeBSD at home and I haven't been able to make it crash by
> loading it up.I can untar something from tape, gunzip something and
> compile something else all the same time, it slows but doesn't stop.
The highest load I've placed on my FreeBSD box is a "make -j 6" of
the Angband sources (6 concurrent gcc's), six Quicktimes of "Star
Trek: Voyager" episode previews playing at once, two FTP's of the
complete FreeBSD sources as one giant tarball to another FreeBSD
machine on the local net (one getting, one putting). I ran an iozone
just to make sure the disk was really busy, and finally xlocked my
screen with a 1000-body "swarm" animation. Then I went for dinner. :)
Two hours later, Angband was still compiling and nothing had fallen
over. Rest assured your FreeBSD box can take a really heavy beating
and continue along without tripping over its shoelaces (where's that
new daemon picture?) :)
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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