Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 22:45:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Joe Gleason <clash@tasam.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Server Stability not good anymore Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809272237330.17093-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <015401bdeaa1$8dd01320$f10408d1@bug.tasam.com>
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On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Joe Gleason wrote: >You would think that 640mb is exesive, but you have never run a shell server >then. ;-) >I do need it. At 512mb, I was swaping a good 30mb to disk. > >Right now, I am agreeing with your conclusion. > I beg to differ. I have ran a shell server before and still do run a couple. They might not have as many users/jobs as your server however. OTOH, my ISP (best.com) runs heave HEAVE loaded servers. They do all: shell, web, ftp, telnet, pop, imap, etc. But they are not throwing all their users into a single system - instead they are putting about 2000 users per box. The boxes are PPro200s with 128MB of RAM. They usually have 150-200 users on line at any time (this is logged in users + pop/imap/web users) per system. One of their head engineers (who is also a FreeBSD developer) wrote an article recently for Newsletter #2 about FreeBSD use in ISP like environment. Check out: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/newsletter/ How many users do you have on your system? If it less then 5000 you should be fine with 512 or less MB of ram (unless the all like to run emacs at the same time *grin*) -- Yan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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