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To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 05:38:33 -0800
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>David Greenman <dg@root.com> writes:
>> >When you think about it, 2750 users, each with a distinct forked process
>> >(I assume), that is really stunning.  I've known about the wcarchive
>> >machine for a while, but somehow I never really dwelled on the magnitude
>> >of the task.
>> 
>>    Yes, "ps" on wcarchive is highly discouraged. :-)
>
>Does killall(1) and top(1) still works?

   top works and is frequently used. killall is too scarey for me to think
about.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project