Record High Load Average

Brian Kantor brian at ucsd.EDU
Thu May 11 23:10:48 AEST 1989


A few years ago our Vax-780 'sdcc3' set the netwide load average record
high of 128 (and may still hold it for a single-processor Unix system).

Yesterday we got our network connections unjammed and our mail gateway
'UCSD' set what I think may be the record for a Vax-750: 85.3.  And this
is on a machine which has NO users, just sendmails.  Thank goodness
we're getting some faster hardware in soon.

Truly a frightful experience.

	Brian Kantor	UCSD Office of Academic Computing
			Academic Network Operations Group  
			UCSD C-010, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
			brian at ucsd.edu ucsd!brian BRIAN at UCSD



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