Re: Braging about fork...

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

>  OK, I`ll take a six-pack of beer, please.
> 
>  I just had to do that. Ran the fork program as a user (no resource
> restrictions) for about 15-18 seconds before I CTRL-C`d it to halt it.
> 
>  Load figure hit 106. :-)
> 
>  I suppose dual PII`s help :-)

Actually, the slower the better I would have thought. Apparently, the
admins on our compute server (which is a *very* big and mean machine) had
to reach for the big red button....


Cheers,

Alex.


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