From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 7 16:18:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19661 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 16:18:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from schizo.com (schizo.com [216.27.37.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA19615; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 16:18:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bits@oldwarez.com) Received: from oldwarez.com (bits@oldwarez.com [216.27.37.18]) by schizo.com (8.9.1/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA11098; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:17:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:17:54 -0400 (EDT) From: BitS X-Sender: bits@schizo.com To: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD load handling and responsivness Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="0-514894932-907802274=:10502" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. --0-514894932-907802274=:10502 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Jordan, I've been running FreeBSD for about a year and a half now, and recently ran into some problems with ram... after realizing it was probably the ram causing these problems, I swapped it out and began the wait to see if the problems would persist... after a short wait decided I need to put the machine through its paces and see if I could bring the problem to the surface... Well, I couldn't get it to show itself, but.. I was astonished to see that the box lived through it. So... thanks to you and the rest of the fbsd team for contributing to a great OS. Through all of the load I put on the machine, it would still switch consoles without hesitation, and a control-c killed the parent process immediatly, returning the bots to a normal usable state. Below is my load average done immediatly following my massive forking... bits@chaos:~>uptime 6:51PM up 1:12, 5 users, load averages: 917.77, 875.69, 572.58 bits@chaos:~> That was after about 10 mins of running the program, the source of which is attached. For some extra info, heres my uname -a: bits@chaos:~>uname -a FreeBSD chaos.schizo.com 3.0-BETA FreeBSD 3.0-BETA #0: Mon Oct 5 11:42:19 EDT 1998 bits@chaos.schizo.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/ChaosKern i386 Awesome work on the OS, keep up the good work... PLEASE! :) David -------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wimsey Network Engineer dwimsey@rtci.com Research Triangle Consultants, Inc 919-380-9771x3101 http://www.rtci.com http://www.schizo.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- He who laughs last, is slow. --0-514894932-907802274=:10502 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; name="forkdeath.c" Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64 Content-ID: Content-Description: Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="forkdeath.c" I2luY2x1ZGUgPHN0ZGlvLmg+DQojaW5jbHVkZSA8c3lzL3R5cGVzLmg+DQoj aW5jbHVkZSA8dW5pc3RkLmg+DQoNCnZvaWQgbWFpbih2b2lkKQ0Kew0KZmxv YXQgeHg9MDsNCmZsb2F0IHp6PTA7DQpGSUxFICpmcDsNCiB3aGlsZSgxKQ0K ew0KCWZvcmsoKTsNCglwcmludGYoICJmb3JrZWQiICk7DQoJZnByaW50Zigg c3RkZXJyLCAiZm9ya2VkIiApOw0KCXh4Kys7IHp6Kys7DQoJeHg9enoqenov eHgrMTsNCgl4eD16eioyOw0KCWZwPWZvcGVuKCAiL3Vzci9ob21lL2JpdHMv ZGVhdGgiLCAiciIpOwkJDQoJZmNsb3NlKCBmcCApOw0KfQkNCg0KfQ0K --0-514894932-907802274=:10502-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message