From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Dec 29 21:59:01 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id VAA02233 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 21:59:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from intrastar.net (root@intrastar.net [206.136.25.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA02228 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 21:58:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from fixed.intrastar.net (jakes@fixed.intrastar.net [206.136.25.69]) by intrastar.net (8.8.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA17387; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 00:00:57 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199612300600.AAA17387@intrastar.net> From: "Jacob Suter" To: "Peter Carah" , "dennis" Cc: Subject: Re: Bandwidth.. Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 20:18:11 -0600 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The argument for a high speed pentium is much the same as the > V8 vs 4cyl one. Both will get you there without much problem, but > when you need that "extra power" its nice....if you can afford it. My personal experiece an AMD 80386DX/40 with 5 megs ram and a single IDE drive running apache should be able to handle an ISDN speed connection with a lot of hits when running FreeBSD 2.1.0 (its been a while since I did this). At 5 megs it would have eventually beat the hard drive to death, but at 8 megs it was as fast over ethernet (10mbps) as my current webserver (5x86/133, 32 megs ram). The 386 handled 7,500 hits/day (one of my users decided to put up a porn site) for about a week without too much trouble. I'd never want to try to make it do it again though :-) TTYL JS