You can browse the Minix source code as used on this site. Some Notes on Performance As of January 2001 Minix 2.0 has been running on this system for about four years. It has proved to be quite robust. In a typical day there are several hundred, sometimes over 1000, accesses to the system over the Internet. Click here to see statistics on recent connections to this site.
Most system administration is done remotely.
For six months in 1997 the system administrator was working in another country. There were only two occasions during that period when somebody at Hampshire College had to be asked to do an on-site reset of the system. There are a few steps that are taken to improve the performance and increase the robustness of the system. The root file system is kept on a RAM disk, and the master copy of the root file system is normally not mounted, affording some measure of security for its files. In particular, network servers are kept here, for fast loading without disk access.