Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:06:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Julian C. Dunn" <jdunn@aecinfo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 386s as mail servers? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807161506390.21519-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980715190709.13708B-100000@unix.aecinfo.com>
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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
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