Re: Apple?

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From: Ravi Krishna Swamy
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 17:51

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In article <3vqspe$s0p@navajo.gate.net> cirby@news.gate.net (Chad Irby) writes:
>Joe Sloan (jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu) wrote:
>
>: A unix machine can be used by zero or more persons at any point in time.
>: (a unix machine is typically busy running tasks whether there are zero, 
>: one, twenty or 500 people actively using it.)
>
>: The bottom line: there is no minimum number of users, and the maximum
>: number of simultaneous users is a function of system resources, e.g. 
>: CPU power & installed RAM...
>
>You don't have to sit at a machine to use it.  If there are processes 
>running that are supposed to do things, then it's being used by someone.

So all those daemons started by root at bootup time are being
"used by someone?"  If nfsd is running and nobody is accessing the
machines drives then who is using nfsd?

>If there's nobody using the machine, you should turn it off and save some 
>energy...

No thanks, I'll leave my machine on.  Don't you ever see those things
that say turning on a computer is more stress than just leaving it on?
My Linux box at work stays up 24-7 because I never know when someone
might want to access it.

Ravi

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Subject: Re: Apple?
Date: 3 Aug 1995 17:51:42 GMT
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