From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 1 18:29:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA08639 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:29:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA08633 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:29:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA03804; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 10:58:46 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA26170; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 10:58:46 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981002105845.P24146@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 10:58:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jan B. Koum " , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: We win References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jan B. Koum on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 01:54:00PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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