From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 24 00:40:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA20318 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 00:40:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA20311 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 00:40:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xw0Qt-0004I2-00; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 23:55:15 -0800 Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 23:55:10 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Brian Tao cc: "Lee Crites (AEI)" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Had the shotgun out and pointed at my -current/SMP box... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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