Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 12:19:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How 'tweaked' is ftp.cdrom.com ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905251216380.13061-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <14153.54020.834915.91060@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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On Mon, 24 May 1999, John Reynolds~ wrote: > Hey there, don't know if this is appropriate for -questions or -chat, but it > *is* a question, so here goes: > > On slashdot.org today there was a posting about Wcarchive hitting 1.39Tb of > info in 24 hours. Yeah! :) In the comments section there were all sorts of > pseudo-FUD going around about how Linux could probably handle the same load > and blah blah blah. Oh yeah, I'll buy a case of beer for the first group to make a Linux box do what wcarchive does. Same equipment, clusters don't count. > My question is--how "tweaked" is the kernel that is running ftp.cdrom.com? I'm expecting dg to hop in here any second. From my understanding, 'heavily.' He also uses a custom ftpd. He's a little secretive about this since that's how he makes his money, but it's not something I could thunk out in a day. > Just wondering how 'tweaked' things are on that machine compared to a > "standard" FreeBSD installation. Enough that you should hire him on if you need that kind of gear. :) Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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