Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 18:42:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> To: Pat Lynch <lynch@rush.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stupidity subjects box to *severe* stress test -- FreeBSD passes with flying colors Message-ID: <XFMail.990510184220.conrads@neosoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905100938120.995-100000@bytor.rush.net>
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On 10-May-99 Pat Lynch wrote:
> I made the same mistake once... running tripwire at 1 am, I ran 60 copies
> of tripwire, when I woke up in the morning, and logged in remotely, it
> was a little sluggish, and the load was up to 134 or something like
> that...
>
> (ok, a *little* sluggish is an understatement)
>
> but I was able to kill all the tripwire processes (took me 25 minutes)
"killall -9 tripwire" took 25 minutes???
I did a killall on cron, cvsup, make, and had things back to normal in no
time. Just try *that* on a Winblows box (of course, the Winblows box would
have died a horrible death long before that anyway).
FreeBSD never ceases to amaze me, I tell ya.
--
Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com>
Anyone who hates Dogs and Kids Can't be All Bad.
-- W. C. Fields
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