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On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Michael wrote:
>> 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? :)
IIRC, showme was running AIX when I arrived in '97. It was rock solid for
me as far as I can remember.
Mike
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