Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 23:55:10 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> 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: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980123235407.16489A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980124003235.15866H-100000@tor-adm1>
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On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Brian Tao wrote: > 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. I don't know where I could find that many shell users. A system here has 14K accounts, but only about a hundred of them actually use shell. Where are you finding all these shell users? > -- > Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca) > "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" Tom
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