From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 16 15:07:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27616 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:07:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27609 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:07:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA13793; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:06:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:06:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Julian C. Dunn" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 386s as mail servers? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Julian C. Dunn wrote: > Thanks to everyone who responded to my last query about the mysterious > system crashes -- it turned out to be a hardware problem. Now that we have > our FreeBSD box up and running perfectly, my boss wants to do much more > with it (or maybe more boxes). > > We have recently come into possession of a number of old 386s and are > planning to use these boxes as POP servers for a large number of clients. > My question is, roughly how many POP users could one 386 support, given > that this will be their only purpose? Has anyone ever done something of > the sort with a 386? I'd be interested in knowing your experiences. Just how much memory do these machines have? What speed CPUs? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message