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From: Ben Black <black@MR.Net>
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Subject: Re: 1250 simultaneous sessions? (Re: Internet Server?)
To: ian@gamespot.com
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 00:28:52 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199607232056.UAA23678@gamespot.com> from "Ian Kallen" at Jul 23, 96 09:01:19 pm
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it tells you when you connect.  P6-150 with 512MB RAM.  so 1250 users is not
the upper limit on current PC hardware.  

as a side note, when we installed solaris 2.5 on our intel based news server
system (it had been running freebsd), we had to immediately double the RAM
to 128MB to keep it from swapping.  now it handles 6 million articles with a
load average only slightly higher than under freebsd :).


Ben
black@mr.net

> 
> > From:          James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
> > Subject:       Re: Internet Server?
> > To:            sai@ebara.co.jp
> > Date:          Tue, 23 Jul 1996 20:14:35 +0000 ()
> > Cc:            freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Yes indeed, it's used by many Internet Service Providers across the
> > world; the most famous example is probably Walnut Creek's FTP
> > server, which can support up to 1250 simultaneous clients.
> > 
> What kind of hardware and what kernel tweak is being used that can handle 
> 1250 simultaneous sessions??  I was wondering what the upper limit of
> fbsd's memory capacity is, I'm thinking of moving a 64 meg ram 
> machine to 128 megs (simms are sooo cheap these days!). 
> Ian Kallen                           ian@gamespot.com
>      Director of Technology & Web Administration
>             http://www.gamespot.com
>