Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 09:20:00 -0800 (PST) From: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com> To: lukas@design.de, mountin.man@mixcom.com Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, lem@cantv.net Subject: Re: [fbsd-isp] Designing for a very large ISP Message-ID: <199801121720.JAA00214@agua.flyingfox.com>
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Lukas Wunner <lukas@design.de> writes: > As a general rule of thumb, with PCs you will almost always be able > to get 128MB to work reliable, more than 128MB is a matter of luck, > more than 256MB is practically impossible. I had to learn this the > hard way. I call your attention to: agua:/usr/home/jas$ ftp ftp.freebsd.org Connected to wcarchive.cdrom.com. 220 wcarchive.cdrom.com FTP server (Version DG-2.0.7 Wed Oct 22 02:30:03 PDT 1997) ready. Name (ftp.freebsd.org:jas): ftp 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. Password: 230-Welcome to wcarchive - home ftp site for Walnut Creek CDROM. 230-There are currently 1909 users out of 2750 possible. 230- [...] 230-This machine is a P6/233 with 1GB of memory & 142GB of disk online. 230-The operating system is FreeBSD. Should you wish to get your own copy of 230-FreeBSD, see the pub/FreeBSD directory, visit http://www.freebsd.org, or > Of the three German news boxes in the upper 50 ranks in Top1000 12/97 > (www.freenix.fr/top1000), two are SGI-based systems (fu-berlin.de and > newsfeed.ecrc.net). No comment. Of course, it's difficult to draw any particular conclusion from this. Let's just say *somebody* has to keep SGI solvent; I'm glad the Germans are stepping up to the plate :->. Jim Shankland Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc.help
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