[UCLA-LUG] login Questions
Luis
Luis@billingsupport.com
Wed, 03 May 2000 11:46:25 -0700
I have a question , would anyone know how to check or what the command is
to tell me who's long into my machine. When I do top it tells me that there
are 2 users on my linux box . it would help me if someone could tell me
what the command is .
Thanks
Luis
At 11:16 AM 5/3/00 -0700, you wrote:
>On Wed, 03 May 2000 07:34:51 -0700, said "Todd A. Lyons" <todd@mrball.net>:
> >Frederick Lee wrote:
> >
> >> However, running Netscape off a very fast machine, remote, over a 28.8kpbs
> >> modem, when your home box is a P5/100 with only 16MB RAM, is far more
> tolerable
> >> (and faster!) than trying to bring the beast up locally.
> >
> >From a DSL connection at my home to a DSL connection at a buddy's house,
> >it takes about 3 minutes for Netscape just to come up through X
> >forwarding. Is that what you call tolerable? I considered it a little
> >beyond intolerable myself. The amount of traffic that generates was
> >kind of amazing to me.
> >--
> >Blue skies... Cannonball http://www.mrball.net
> >* One GUI to rule them all, One GUI to find them *
> >*One GUI to bring them all, and with the blue screen bind them*
> >* In the land of Redmond, where the shadows lie. *
>
>Downgrade your chip to a P5/100, pull out all but 16MB of RAM, set your X
>server to a non-acclerated mode, and run your swap drives at a good ol' 2MB/s
>sustained rate (PIO 2?). Then you'll see that 3 minutes remote startup is far
>more tolerable than 10 minutes local.
>
>Also, nice little thing called lbxproxy, compressed X communication. Helped
>speed things up a bit.
>
>(Maybe there was confusion over the fact that I was behind the 28.8 and
>running
>Netscape off a remote PII/233?)
>
>-Fred
>
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