From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 12 09:42:44 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA11742 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 May 1995 09:42:44 -0700 Received: from grunt.grondar.za (grunt.grondar.za [196.7.18.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA11730 for ; Fri, 12 May 1995 09:42:19 -0700 Received: from grumble.grondar.za (grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by grunt.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA04446; Fri, 12 May 1995 18:42:04 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA14396; Fri, 12 May 1995 18:42:03 +0200 Message-Id: <199505121642.SAA14396@grumble.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grumble.grondar.za: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: asami@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Large installations of FreeBSD? Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 18:42:03 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hello FreeBSD hackers. I'm the one that asked about "case for > FreeBSD" help a while ago...well I'm still fighting for my life > against a large number of WS and Linux proponents. > > Anyway, I have a question for you. Are any of you using FreeBSD in a > large community? By large, I mean: > > (1) The machine is "large", i.e., lots of memory/disk, large number of > users/ftp/http connections (e.g., wcarchive, Brian Tao's www site) Yup. We are large in this way. I am a Senior Network Engineer for an internet providor in South Africa. Our news/nameserver is a FreeBSD box, and it has a feed of _ALL_ the nesgroups we can find (Including clari.*!). We are running INN, and we both redistrubute bulk news to client sites and offer nnrp to dial-in users around the country. The machine has 64MB of RAM, 6GB of Disk space on 4 SCSI disks, 1 Adaptec 1542 SCSI controller, and the CPU is a 486DX2/66. Over this weekend I am going to make it the HTTP/FTP site for our domain too, as I find most of the time, in spite of an _extremely_ busy console log, the machine is just ticking over (Load averages << 1). This what you want? Mark -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200