From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 17 10:43:58 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA10058 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Apr 1995 10:43:58 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA10050 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 1995 10:43:54 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id BAA04134; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 01:43:09 +0800 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 01:43:09 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: Ian Wynne cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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