From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 1 12:41:02 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA24539 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 12:41:02 -0700 Received: from trepan.io.org (taob@trepan.io.org [198.133.36.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA24534 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 12:41:00 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by trepan.io.org (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA00470; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 15:40:37 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 15:40:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: A moment in the life of ftp.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <8554.812400870@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Whoa, momma! Check out the size of that PERL mirror job! :-) As a side note, I manually snarfed the 950928 snapshot off freefall last night (ftp.io.org's mirroring seems to have fallen by the wayside recently) using ncftp 2.1.1's multiple recursive get feature. Today, I did the same thing to my home directory on aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw. It was able to download only the files that don't already exist, or had modification dates older than the ones on the remote site. So for simply mirroring needs, ncftp2 could be a suitable alternative, and doesn't use anywhere near the amount of memory that perl script does. BTW, ftp.io.org:/pub/systems/FreeBSD/2.1.0-950928-SNAP/ is now available, for the times when ftp.cdrom.com is busy. Now if I could only figure out how to get this damn BSD/OS box to accept more than 15 FTP logins at once (yes, I've edited /etc/ftpaccess)... :-/ > With 350 ftp users logged in along with 7 interactive users (one of > whom appears to be running emacs :-), Lose the emacs user and pump up the number of connections to 400. :) I couldn't get through to ftp.cdrom.com and finally gave up and checked freefall instead. > 31 active HTTP sessions and some 700K/sec streaming constantly out of > its one ethernet interface (as checked with netstat), When's the FDDI wire going in? :) > well, all I can say is: "This is a PC??!" :-) Amen, brother. :) > The irony is that if we could only fit more than 128MB of memory into > this beast we could do even more.. I wonder if anyone from Intel is > listening? Guys! We need a decent motherboard with room for more > memory, please! please! :-) Someone ought to port FreeBSD to run on the PowerMac 9500... six (or is it eight?) PCI slots, CPU daughterboard and 768 megs of RAM. *drool* *drool* :) Why not toss another similary-equipped PC on WC's network and round-robin FTP connections between the two? I'd love to see a FreeBSD system be the first on the net to advertise "maximum of 1000 simultaneous logins". :) -- Brian Tao System Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"