Tim Connors wrote:
As a test one day, I mounted nfs over the modem, and ran about 300 processes doing a find over the modem. CPU usage was ~10%, 15 minute load was above 200 :)
On a RHL box (Pentium II 233, 128 Mbytes), logrotate decided it was going to rotate indefinitely.
It was few days before I noticed: by then loadaverage was approaching 120.I was on the L-390 list back then, so I threw them a snipped to sho how busy _my_ server was, then got back to sorting it out. Slowly.
Oh - and the waiting 5 seconds for your bash *shell* to echo a single character keypress. <shudder>.
At present I'm working from home by dialup. I frequently run gvim as a scratch-pad from which to multiclick and paste commands into my multitudinous terminals. Otheriwse the dialup would be unusable while getting my Sarge fixes, my email, checking /..
Well, not the last. Pings often exceed 5 secs. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa@computerdatasafe.com.au Z1aaaaaaa@computerdatasafe.com.au Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/