Date:  4 January 1983 22:29 mst
From:  Lippard.DSOP (James J. Lippard)
Subject:  Miscellaneous Digest V2 #2
Reply-To:  misc
To:   (Miscellaneous Mailing List)

Miscellaneous Digest                              Volume 2 : Issue 2

Today's topics:
		Another benchmark story
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Date:  4 January 1983 22:13 mst
From:  Senft.Multics
Subject:  Another benchmark story.

Paul's reminicences about the deletion of the meter results reminded me
of another benchmark story.  Ed Brunelle was working on a benchmark a
few years back.  He was the only user on a 4 megaword benchmark system.
He spent most of 12 hours editing the benchmark scripts and building all
sorts of control files, etc.  Just before he was to shut down the system
crashed, with out ESD.  When he got the system running again he
discovered that since he had all that memory the work he had done never
got written out.  The system had never needed to evict a page in memory
so the results of all his work never migrated to disc and with the
ESD-less crash never will.  AH yes those were the days.

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