From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jun 4 09:45:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA09507 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:45:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from itesocci.gdl.iteso.mx (itesocci.gdl.iteso.mx [148.201.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA09500 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:45:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cacho@localhost) by itesocci.gdl.iteso.mx (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA09957; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 11:44:43 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 11:44:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Hector Gonzalez Jaime X-Sender: cacho@itesocci.gdl.iteso.mx To: Nabil Zary cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD: 5000 Telnet users/ Best choice In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We do fine for 7,000 users with a Pentium 133, 128 mb ram, 4 gig disk, and 512kb cache. On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Nabil Zary wrote: > > Hi, > > We have to provide telnet access to around 5000 Students > (for pine, irc, news, etc..). > We expect an average of 50-100 users logged at the same time. > Should a Pentium Pro 200Mhz with 120Mb RAM do the job?? > (or is a Pentium 100Mhz, 98Mb RAM enough?) > OS: FreeBSD 2.X > Best regards, > > Nabil Zary > Stockholm > > > ________________________________________________ > __| Nabil Zary |__ > (___O) M I P (O___) > (_____O) Karolinska Institutet (O_____) > (_____O) Nabil.Zary@mip.ki.se (O_____) > (__O) Tel. 08-728 7129 (O__) > __| www.mip.ki.se |__ > |________________________________________________| > > >