Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 00:38:06 -0600 (CST) From: "James D. Butt" <jbutt@mwci.net> To: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [fbsd-isp] Designing for a very large ISP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980105001030.19497D-100000@subcellar.mwci.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980104225839.7395A-100000@dot.ishiboo.com>
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> > Well, think of a news server as a "big mail host". How many people use > NFS on a news server? None that I am aware of. > > A PPro 200MHz can handle all the mail 3 T3's can dump on it. How much > mail are we talking about? Storage may be an issue, but thats a whole > different ball game. Oshh... About a year ago or so we tested a BSDI 2.0 machine with sendmail (It was a P120 with I forget how much ram) we tried to kill it will mail to find out how much mail it could do....SMTP wise.. We figured that at 15,000 users or so that we would have the server maxed out during some periods of the day.. If I remember right the machine had slow disks.. We did all sorts of calculations based on our mail at that time.. I guess that it is possible... Hmmm that gives me something to think about.. We have noticed that the performance of FreeBSD is a bit better than BSDI 2.0.. What about UID's what is the max number of users you can throw on one system?? > That's what DATs are for. I know what you mean, though. You want a system > you set up and NOT WORRY ABOUT. Our NFS server has had in excess of 250 > days uptime, but I am not doing anything fancy on it. It is exporting NFS > and samba, and I have not had ANY lockups, freezes, or corruptions so far > (knock on wood!). We had a BSDI server at 400 some days and then we had a nic go bad (real strange).. > I still think you can avoid NFS if you want to. I also think FreeBSD's NFS > kicks the shit out of Linux's for speed, reliability, and security. I > give Kudos to the guys who have worked on it. I will have to say that I am so impressed with FreeBSD... I just did not realize...when we started looking at it. We have replaced all of out BSDI and Linux boxes with FreeBSD and we are very very happy. Way to go guys.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- James D. Butt 'J.D.' Network Engineer Voice 319-557-8463 Network Operations Center Fax 319-557-9771 MidWest Communications, Inc. Pager 319-557-6347 241 Main St. noc@mwci.net Dubuque, IA 52001 jbutt@mwci.net --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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