[372] in Humor
NOT HUMOR: But I promise...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Sun Jul 24 22:01:54 1994
From: abennett@MIT.EDU
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 94 21:43:29 EDT
...not to do this kind of post except when comets hit planets.
-Drew
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 12:54:42 -0600 (MDT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN%ARIES@VAXF.Colorado.EDU>
From: dave-barry@marble.com (Keith Bostic)
Subject: Jupiter-Comet gifs
From: "James W. Williams" <williams@bolero.gsfc.nasa.gov>
One of my machines is hosting a World Wide Web page through which you may
access a bunch of gifs of the Shoemaker-Levy comet impacts on Jupiter.
The URL for Mosaic is
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/sl9/comet_images.html
I like the Hubble and Keck images, especially of fragment G. Today has
been a real zoo. These Web pages were on a different machine (bolero),
which is short of RAM. This morning when I got in I found bolero frozen
solid, swapping its brains out. After rebooting, it started getting
slower and slower as I tried to find out what was going on. I quickly
found out we had about 20 http daemons running with more starting all
the time. I barely had time to kill the daemon. We moved the sl9
images to our new Alpha, with 64MB, and things are much nicer. We are
currently serving about 2000 gif images per hour.
It's really appalling that a DEC AXP 3000/400 with 32 MB of RAM can't
handle more than a few users. OSF/1 is a total pig...
Jim
