Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 16:37:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Nguyen Phi Khanh <nguyenpk@kuci.org> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: To support 2k users.. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971019162818.5203B-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971019151327.2893A-100000@falco.kuci.uci.edu>
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On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Nguyen Phi Khanh wrote: > I'm planning on supporting 2000 users and I'm wondering if anyone > has any good ideas on what I should do. I plan on either buying multiple > boxes of Dual Pentium Pro machines to support a fraction of the 2k users > on FreeBSD or BSD/OS, *or* buy one or two Sun Sparc Ultras. I'm not too > sure how well FreeBSD or BSD/OS does SMP either. Anyone supporting 2k > users willing to give me any advice on how I should approach this? I'm > curious as to how many shell users can one Dual PPro 200 box running FBSD > handle. Any suggestions or ideas or speculations would be welcomed. :) What will these 2k users be doing first of all? This is the most important consideration. What services do these 2k users need? You mention shell users: in my experience, shell use is in decline as most people prefer direct network access via LAN or PPP dial-up. SMP is in FreeBSD-current. FreeBSD-current should be considered expirimental, so unless these 2k users are part of an expiriment, I don't recommend using it. I'm working at site that is 100% FreeBSD with over 12k users. CPU power is the least of my problems. I worry a lot more about i/o needs. > -Khanh > nguyenpk@kuci.org > nguyenpk@quadrunner.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ryan Phi Khanh Nguyen Network Manager > E-mail nguyenpk@kuci.org for Public Key http://kuci.org/~nguyenpk > PGP Key fingerprint = 4B B3 5B 7D 21 95 67 23 58 9C AD 64 44 57 CC 5D > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Tom
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