Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 23:34:46 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Brian Tao <taob@nbc.netcom.ca> Cc: "Lee Crites (AEI)" <leec@adam.adonai.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Had the shotgun out and pointed at my -current/SMP box... Message-ID: <19980123233446.17643@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980124003235.15866H-100000@tor-adm1>; from Brian Tao on Sat, Jan 24, 1998 at 12:34:26AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980123124559.16809C-100000@adam.adonai.net> <Pine.GSO.3.95.980124003235.15866H-100000@tor-adm1>
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Brian Tao scribbled this message on Jan 24: > On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Lee Crites (AEI) wrote: > > > > This is what I was told was needed for a windoze nt box running an > > isp with 8 dial-up lines. It was a copy of a machine I saw at an > > operating isp which ran like your average windoze box (read: like a > > dog). Actually, that's a lie. The isp box was, if I recall, a > > p133. I figured my p200 would make it acceptable... > > Geez... I used to run P133 128MB shell servers on FreeBSD 2.1.0 > that could comfortably handle ~100 users. With today's CPU's and the > price of memory, it's too bad we can only get 256 pty's per machine. > I'll bet a nice Pentium II system could handle 500 shell users. actually, your only limited to 256 pty's if you use devfs... (there might be some modifications to handle minor numbers properly too), but all you need to do is make the nodes by hand, teach the other programs about 'em... and yes, we do need to use a clone device instead of doing a linear search of 'em... but we need new open semantics that allow you to pass back a different handle than what was opened... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD
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