Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 13:01:11 -0500 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: "Jacob Suter" <jsuter@intrastar.net> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bandwidth.. Message-ID: <3.0.32.19961230130108.00aadb70@etinc.com>
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>The 386 handled 7,500 hits/day (one of my users decided to put up a porn >site) for about a week without too much trouble. I'd never want to try to >make it do it again though :-) I think that <6 hits per minute is not a major task for any processor... surely you cant be implying that you need a pentium for that kind of volume? The problem here probably has more to do with your $9. ISA IDE controller than it does the '386 vs Pentium. A (slow) '486 with a PCI IDE controller not only has more processor power, but also much higher bus throughput to the disk. I dont think that anyone would recommend a '386 for anything nowadays (with '486-100s with on-board PCI IDE at about $100.)....I was talking much more about the '486 or 100Mhz Pentium vs the higher end stuff than obsoleted equipment like '386. Dennis
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