From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 5 14:36:49 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA06808 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Mar 1995 14:36:49 -0800 Received: from seldon.apanix.apana.org.au (seldon.apanix.apana.org.au [192.203.213.8]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA06785 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 1995 14:36:41 -0800 Received: from ldjpc.apana.org.au. (ldjpc.apana.org.au [192.203.213.254]) by seldon.apanix.apana.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA07091; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 09:09:01 +1030 Received: (from jj@localhost) by ldjpc.apana.org.au. (8.6.9/8.6.9) id IAA00822; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 08:05:41 +0930 Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 08:05:40 +0930 (CST) From: Lucas James To: Tom Samplonius cc: Bryan McDade , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dual pentium In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-Warning: I probably don't know what I'm Saying MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 5 Mar 1995, Tom Samplonius wrote: > On Sun, 5 Mar 1995, Bryan McDade wrote: > > Hi i was browsing your section on the web, i'm interested in running unix on > > a dual pentium as a server and am looking for the cheapest way... > You must need some *serious* power. wcarchive.cdrom.com handles > 400-500 ftp users on a 90mhz Pentium system without a problem. I would have thought that an ftp session would be network bound, rather than CPU bound. If I were to try and do a couple of raytraced images, then I would want all the CPU power I can get (read afford :) Lucas +-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ |Lucas James | Rovering is Fun | |jj@ldjpc.apana.org.au | Scouting is Fun | |jj@apanix.apana.org.au | therefore ASL+R=Lots of Fun | +-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ |Ass.Scout Ldr, Munno Para Troop, South Australia | |Secretary, Para Rover Crew | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Overheared a leader at 17th Australian 15th Asia Pacific Jamboree: | | "I'm only 18, but I have 42 years experience" | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+