Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 10:58:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: We win Message-ID: <19981002105845.P24146@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810011350340.25300-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>; from Jan B. Koum on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 01:54:00PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810011350340.25300-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>
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On Thursday, 1 October 1998 at 13:54:00 -0700, Jan B. Koum wrote: > > From http://www.slashdot.org/articles/98/10/01/106232.shtml we > read: > > As of Tuesday morning, ftp.redhat.com has been running from the ISPCON > show floor in the Intel booth. We have a 20Mbs network pipe provided by > Intel and a Dell PowerEdge 2300 server. In just 24 hours we've done over > 170G of data transferred to the Internet from that single server. The > server is a Dual P-II 400 with 1G of RAM. It also has 4x9G Seagate Cheetah > LVD drives running Linux software RAID 5 on the embedded Adaptec > controller. This machine simply *screams*. We had originally spec'ed two > machines, but we now simply use one of them as a backup. > > Gee.. and single cpu ftp.cdrom.com transfered ONLY 417 gig in one > day. Hmm.. 170G vs 417G :P Linux folks are our friends but we still have > the lead here. Yes, but we don't do it over a single 20 Mb/s line. Let's see... that's 2.5 MB/s, or 216 GB per day *raw bandwidth*. If they really got 170 of our kind of GB down that line, they've been running it at at least 100%. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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