Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 18:42:03 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: asami@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Large installations of FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199505121642.SAA14396@grumble.grondar.za>
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> Hello FreeBSD hackers. I'm the one that asked about "case for > FreeBSD" help a while ago...well I'm still fighting for my life > against a large number of WS and Linux proponents. > > Anyway, I have a question for you. Are any of you using FreeBSD in a > large community? By large, I mean: > > (1) The machine is "large", i.e., lots of memory/disk, large number of > users/ftp/http connections (e.g., wcarchive, Brian Tao's www site) Yup. We are large in this way. I am a Senior Network Engineer for an internet providor in South Africa. Our news/nameserver is a FreeBSD box, and it has a feed of _ALL_ the nesgroups we can find (Including clari.*!). We are running INN, and we both redistrubute bulk news to client sites and offer nnrp to dial-in users around the country. The machine has 64MB of RAM, 6GB of Disk space on 4 SCSI disks, 1 Adaptec 1542 SCSI controller, and the CPU is a 486DX2/66. Over this weekend I am going to make it the HTTP/FTP site for our domain too, as I find most of the time, in spite of an _extremely_ busy console log, the machine is just ticking over (Load averages << 1). This what you want? Mark -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200
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