From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 23 23:28:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA14561 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 23:28:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca (root@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca [207.181.89.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA14552 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 23:28:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taob@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca) Received: (from taob@localhost) by tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA01853; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 00:34:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 00:34:26 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao X-Sender: taob@tor-adm1 To: "Lee Crites (AEI)" cc: 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 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. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"