MLUG: Re: (showme.missouri.edu memory) - Re: [MLUG] COIN + Kinternet
Re: (showme.missouri.edu memory) - Re: [MLUG] COIN + Kinternet
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>showme crashed all the time the first year or so, as I recall. 
>Everyone would log in at once and run pine.  The load average would go
>nuts, then *bam* reboot, then people would start logging back in again
>and the whole thing would start all over.  I remember very clearly
>this happening, at least at the start of the '94-95 academic year
>which I believe was the first academic year that showme was in use.
>  
>
Sounds as if somebody forgot to put limitations on how much resources 
users could eat up. Eek the system should NEVER crash because of 
user-level processes. Running it on Win3.1? :)

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