Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 00:34:02 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Anthony DiPierro <dipierro5@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: looking for ammo Message-ID: <37E8785A.C7B15EC4@softweyr.com> References: <19990921171134.25707.rocketmail@web1302.mail.yahoo.com>
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Anthony DiPierro wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for some ammo to convince a client of mine
> to use freebsd vs. solaris for a server environment.
> Technically, we're looking at high numbers of
> simultaneous TCP connections in a robust scalable
> environment. I already have cdrom.com, hotmail.com,
> and yahoo.com as a list of others in a high scale
> environment using freebsd. cdrom.com is more in the
> space I'm developing for (long term FTP/TCP
> connections, as opposed to short term HTTP/TCP
> connections), but this would be a much higher number
> of connections (more like 500,000 vs 5,000, not
> necessarily on one box of course), at a much lower
> bandwidth.
You'll probably want to ask on the ISP list. It sounds like you're
looking into something with similar network access to an IRC server.
I know both DES and Matt Dillon have worked a lot with large IRC
servers.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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