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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Christian Hochhold <expert@dusk.net>
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On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, Christian Hochhold wrote:

> Hello folks,
> 
> Just a quick question...
> 
> How many Virtual Domains can a P133 with 64M RAM
> host on a 128K ISDN, comfortably?         

Three separate questions here: 
Q1: how many virtual IPs can you put on a FreeBSD box?
A1: More than 5,000 (that is as high as anyone has bothered to test.)

Q2: What load can a P133/64MB cope with?
A2: Well, other significant factors are disk type/speed and CPU L2 cache 
    size.  However, a 486-66 can sustain a load of about 5 conn/sec, so 
    you are really looking at > 10 conn/sec, 600 conn/min, 36,000 conn/hour.

Q3: What load can a 128kbps ISDN ?
A3: 128kbps == 16kBytes/sec.  Since the average Web document is about 
    15kBytes, you should be able to sustain a load of 1 conn/sec.

Note that the capabilities of the P133 are *much* greater than the 128k link.

Most of my customers' virtual servers get between 5,000 and 30,000 
connections per month: less than 100 per hour.

regards,

Danny