From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 25 04:26:32 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 844971065684 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:26:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prad@towardsfreedom.com) Received: from pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B1C58FC17 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:26:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prad@towardsfreedom.com) Received: from pd4mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr2so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.213]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0K3000FNW485AKB0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:24:05 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml5so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.149]) by pd4mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0K3000FRA484TL00@pd4mr2so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:24:05 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gom.home ([70.67.160.176]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0K3000J3R4841E20@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:24:04 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gom.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gom.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id B680AB842 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:24:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:24:01 -0700 From: prad In-reply-to: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20080624212401.1d97c115@gom.home> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: Subject: Re: SSHD Config questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:26:32 -0000 On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:04:40 -0300 Agus wrote: > In case i enable them, would my server, which is very small(Very > little RAM,192MB i think)..its just for educational purposes; could > my server cope with it if for instance tehre were quite a few clients > connected? I dont know how to put this question...sorry.. > and i'm not sure how to answer you - so we are even. however, i can tell you that we've been running a webserver with 20 virtual hosts on a 700MHz with 192M ram for a long time really well (it's also education - a homeschooling project). the pages were served via postgresql databases, python and apache for quite a while, but recently we went to static html pages (that we create using the database and php). even when we were getting 40000+ hits a day we were ok - the slowdown turned out to be in our network hub and once that was upgraded to 100T things were fine. we use sshd with rsa authentication (disabled password login completely), but there are only about 5 accounts and not much login activity. i don't really see why sshd should slow things down - i would think it would be more like that the actual activity would be what the difficulty would be for the server. something you can do though is to log on several times even from one machine (or several - just coordinate it) and see if there is any difference. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's