High load averages revisited

[muller at sdccsu3.UUCP]

Last year toward the end of the winter quarter the CS compiler class
(200+ students strong, on a machine whose password file had over 2500
entries) drove the load average to over 100 on sdccsu3 (a large 11/780).
I suspect it got even higher that that, but I went to bed (this was
around 2 am one morning). This year that class is on a new vax 11/750 
ALL BY THEMSELVES! Measures are being taken so that a repeat of those
load averages will not occur this winter. (Thanks to the 4.2 BSD ipc
system!!).

Keith Muller
UCSD Computer Center